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Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes. -- John Ford
I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk. -- John Ford
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. -- John Ford
I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them. -- John Ford
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. -- John Ford
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it. -- John Ford
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures. -- John Ford
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? -- John Ford
Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils. -- John Ford
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth -- John Ford
I am ... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. -- John Ford
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart. -- John Ford
Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident -- John Ford
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. -- John Ford
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. -- John Ford
Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles. -- John Ford
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance. -- John Ford
Electronics is clearly the winner of the day. -- John Ford
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. -- John Ford
Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea. -- John Ford
Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice. -- John Ford
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner. -- John Ford
Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease. -- John Ford
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies. -- John Ford
How did I get to Hollywood? By train. -- John Ford
I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity ... and, most of all, intellectualism. -- John Ford
Truth is child of Time. -- John Ford
Alas, poor gentleman,
He look'd not like the ruins of his youth
But like the ruins of those ruins. -- John Ford
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them. -- John Ford
Revenge proves its own executioner. -- John Ford
Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee! -- John Ford
When in doubt, make a western. -- John Ford
He hath shook hands with time. -- John Ford
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. -- John Ford
Love is a tyrant, resisted. -- John Ford