John Ford Quotes

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• When in doubt, make a western.

  John Ford

  Doubt, Western, When In Doubt

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• 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

  Simple, Directors, Film

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• 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.

  John Ford

  Photography, Art, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Ford

  War, Taken, Fishing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Ford

  Artist, Pay, Blunt

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• The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  John Ford

  Eye, People, Photograph

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

  John Ford

  Mushrooms, Heaven, Dew

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 1, sc. 3

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• I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

  John Ford

  Talking, Love Making

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

  John Ford

  Heart, Honest, Slave

  John Ford (1827). “Dramatic works of John Ford ...”, p.274

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• What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.

  John Ford

  Justice, Tears, Done

  John Ford (2014). “'Tis Pity She's a Whore”, p.117, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

  John Ford

  Cowboy, Actors, Easier

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
  Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
  It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

  John Ford

  Life, Running, Heart

  John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.63

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• Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

  John Ford

  Hollywood, Film, Tales

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• How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

  John Ford

  Hollywood, Train

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• Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

  John Ford

  Giving, Contentment, Crowns

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• Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

  John Ford

  Revenge, Executioners, Prove It

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• Busy opinion is an idle fool.

  John Ford

  Fool, Opinion, Busy

  1633 ' Tis Pity She's a Whore, act 5, sc.3.

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• Truth is child of Time.

  John Ford

  Truth, Children, Truth Is

  John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.156, Manchester University Press

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• Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

  John Ford

  Play, Doe, Dice

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• 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.

  John Ford

  Princess, Earth Life, Joy

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 2, sc. 2

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• Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

  John Ford

  Mind, Body, Disease

  John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.97, Manchester University Press

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• Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

  John Ford

  Honor, Titles, Add

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• Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

  John Ford

  Men, Evil, Monsters

  'The Lady's Trial' (1639) act 3, sc. 1

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• Revenge proves it's own executioner.

  John Ford

  Revenge, Executioners, Prove It

  John Ford, William Gifford (1827). “The Dramatic Works”, p.329

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