Quotes from John Ford

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.

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

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

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

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.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

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

Truth is child of Time.

'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

I have never thought about what I was doing in terms of art, or "this is great," or "world-shaking," or anything like that. To me, it was always a job of work—which I enjoyed immensely—and that's it.

RememberWhen we last gathered roses in the garden,I found my wits; but truly you lost yours.

Diamond cut diamond.

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 the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

He hath shook hands with time.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.