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 Copy Share Image
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford Copy Share Image
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… — John Ford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — John Ford Copy Share Image
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. — John Ford Copy Share Image
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. — John Ford Copy Share Image
What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice. — John Ford Copy Share Image
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies. — John Ford Copy Share Image
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. — John Ford Copy Share Image
