72 Quotes by John Ford

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

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

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.

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

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.

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.

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.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind’s disease.

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.