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
Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.
Busy opinion is an idle fool.
Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.
How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.
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.
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
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.
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.