John Ford Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.
— Richard Widmark
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I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.
— Robert Wagner
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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
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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
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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
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I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
— Richard Farnsworth
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The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.
— Gloria Stuart
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When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
— Maureen O'Hara
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When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.
— Maureen O'Hara
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
— Winona Ryder
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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
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
— Orson Welles
Who Wrote These John Ford Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 John Ford Quotes as follows: