John Ford
John Ford
John Fordwas an Irish-American film director. He is renowned both for Westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as well as adaptations of classic 20th-century American novels such as the film The Grapes of Wrath. His four Academy Awards for Best Directorremain a record. One of the films for which he won the award, How Green Was My Valley, also won Best Picture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 February 1894
CountryUnited States of America
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
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.
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.
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.
He hath shook hands with time.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
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.