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
Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
He hath shook hands with time.
Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
Truth is child of Time.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Revenge proves it's own executioner.
Diamonds cut diamonds.
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.
Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!
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.