It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
When we were making it [Star Wars], none of the effects were in. So the first time, I thought it was, you know, that… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but...the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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