John Ford Quotes

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

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.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

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.

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.

When in doubt, make a western.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

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.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

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.

What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

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.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

Diamonds cut diamonds.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Truth is child of Time.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

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.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

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.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

He hath shook hands with time.