JOHN FORD

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.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

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

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

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

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.

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

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

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

When in doubt, make a western.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

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

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

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.