John Ford Quotes

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.
Francis Ford Coppola

Father, Son, Bit

I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.
Gus Van Sant

Same, Place, Tell

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
Maureen O'Hara

God, Thought, Green

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.
Maureen O'Hara

Battle, Give, Try

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.
Michel Hazanavicius

Funny, Great, Freedom

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
Jonathan Lethem

Politics, Good, Black

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.
Robert Wagner

Working, Kid, Europe

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.
Dennis Farina

Love, Movies, Real

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.
Gloria Stuart

Time, Made, Pictures

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.
Richard Widmark

Funny, Work, Morning

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
Richard Farnsworth

Good, Real, Worked

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