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.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
When in doubt, make a western.Collection: Doubt
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Simple
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.Collection: War
The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.Collection: Eye
I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.Collection: Mushrooms
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.Collection: Artist
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.Collection: Heart
I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.Collection: Talking
What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.Collection: Justice
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?Collection: Hollywood
Busy opinion is an idle fool.Collection: Fool
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.Collection: Revenge
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.Collection: Men
Truth is child of Time.Collection: Truth
Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.Collection: Play
Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Princess
Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.Collection: Honor
Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.Collection: Electronics
Revenge proves it's own executioner.Collection: Revenge
Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.Collection: Freedom
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.Collection: Giving
Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.Collection: Revenge
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.Collection: Men
Diamonds cut diamonds.Collection: Cutting
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.Collection: Single Life
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.Collection: Grief
Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.Collection: Forgiving
Love is a tyrant, resisted.Collection: Best Love
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growthCollection: Spring
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.Collection: Time
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.Collection: Looks
He hath shook hands with time.Collection: Time