John Ford Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning. — Richard Widmark
I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid. — Robert Wagner
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept… — Jonathan Lethem
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors… — Michel Hazanavicius
My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford,… — Lloyd Kaufman
I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors. — Richard Farnsworth
The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that. — Gloria Stuart
When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god. — Maureen O'Hara
When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in. — Maureen O'Hara
I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't… — Dennis Farina
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which… — Clifton Collins, Jr.
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a… — Adam Haslett
Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing,… — Francis Ford Coppola
I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors. — Winona Ryder
I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned… — Gus Van Sant
I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. — Orson Welles

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