John Ford famous quotes

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

#Art #Eye #People

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
-- John Ford

#Heart #Tongue #Messages

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

#Mushrooms #Heaven #Dew

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

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.
-- John Ford

#Electronics #Winner

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.
-- John Ford

#Dream #Grief #Eye

Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!
-- John Ford

#Integrity #Fighting #Weakness

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

#Justice #Tears #Done

Truth is child of Time.
-- John Ford

#Children #Truth #Truth Is

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.
-- John Ford

#Forgiving #Endurance #Bears

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
-- John Ford

#Giving #Contentment #Crowns

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
-- John Ford

#Revenge #Blow #Delay

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.
-- John Ford

#Freedom #Toil #Strive

Revenge proves it's own executioner.
-- John Ford

#Revenge #Executioners #Prove It

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
-- John Ford

#Hollywood #Train

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.
-- John Ford

#Honor #Titles #Add

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

#Heart #Honest #Slave

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.
-- John Ford

#Men #Clothes #Physicians

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

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
-- John Ford

#Looks #Tailors #Creation

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
-- John Ford

#Spring #Tree #Growth

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

#Mind #Body #Disease

Busy opinion is an idle fool.
-- John Ford

#Fool #Opinion #Busy

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
-- John Ford

#Eye #People #Photograph

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

#Hollywood #Film #Tales

Diamonds cut diamonds.
-- John Ford

#Cutting #Diamond

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.
-- John Ford

#Single Life #Maintenance #Yoke

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 #Joy #Heaven

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.
-- John Ford

#Grief #Heart #Cutting

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.
-- John Ford

#Time #Fate #Sea

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

Love is a tyrant, resisted.
-- John Ford

#Best Love #Love Is #Tyrants

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

#Men #Devil #Monsters

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.
-- John Ford

#Talking #Love Making

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

He hath shook hands with time.
-- John Ford

#Time #Hands