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
Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.
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.
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.
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 the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.
How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Diamonds cut diamonds.