1.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
John Ford
2.
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
3.
I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
John Ford
4.
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
5.
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
6.
When in doubt, make a western.
John Ford
7.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
John Ford
8.
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
9.
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
10.
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
John Ford
11.
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
John Ford
12.
I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.
John Ford
13.
Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.
John Ford
14.
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
John Ford
15.
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.
John Ford
16.
What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.
John Ford
17.
Busy opinion is an idle fool.
John Ford
18.
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
19.
Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
John Ford
20.
Diamonds cut diamonds.
John Ford
21.
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
John Ford
22.
Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
John Ford
23.
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.
John Ford
24.
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
John Ford
25.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
John Ford
26.
Truth is child of Time.
John Ford
27.
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
John Ford
28.
How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
John Ford
29.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
John Ford
30.
The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
John Ford
31.
Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.
John Ford
32.
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
33.
Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.
John Ford
34.
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
35.
Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.
John Ford
36.
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies.
John Ford
37.
Revenge proves it's own executioner.
John Ford
38.
Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.
John Ford
39.
He hath shook hands with time.
John Ford
