Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by John Ford
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American director John Ford.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Revenge proves its own executioner.
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.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
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.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.
Revenge proves it's own executioner.
He hath shook hands with time.
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.
The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.
Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies.
Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
Busy opinion is an idle fool.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.
Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.
Diamonds cut diamonds.
Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.
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.
When in doubt, make a western.
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.
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
Truth is child of Time.
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.
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
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.
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.
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