72 Quotes by John Ford

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.

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.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

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.

When in doubt, make a western.

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

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

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.