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John Ford
5 quotes
“What? [...] I understood the question but what does it mean? [...] I don't have a method. I tell them what to do. They do it. If I'm not satisfied, I correct their errors, I tell them to raise their voice, or to emphasize such-and-such sentence, and they do it again; that's all. Anyway, most of the time the actors are very good friends of mine and I know their personality and their range. There's no method involved there.”
John Ford (1894–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maureen O'Hara is one of the actresses I most dislike. Everybody thought I was her lover. Actually, I hated her and she hated me, but she was right for the parts.”
John Ford (1894–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you know that Eugene O'Neill loved [(1940), based on a cycle of O'Neill's one-act sea plays]? Every month he had a print screened for him. It's a little thing that made me very proud of this picture.”
John Ford (1894–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never. It's awful. When I am asked why I hardly ever move the camera, I answer that the actors are better paid than the stagehands and grips, so it's normal that they should work and move about a little more. You should never use technical gimmicks to create emotion.”
John Ford (1894–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people who say such things are crazy. I am a Northerner, I hate segregation, and I gave jobs to hundreds of Negroes at the same salary the whites were paid. I had production companies hire poverty-stricken Indians and pay them the highest Hollywood salaries for extras. Me, a racist? My best friends are black: , and a caretaker who has worked for me for thirty years. I even made , about a character who was not just a nice black guy but someone nobler than anybody else in the picture. They wouldn't let me make that picture because they said that a movie about a 'nigger' wouldn't make any money and couldn't be exhibited in the South. I got angry and told them they could at least have the decency to say 'Negro' or 'colored man,' because most of those 'niggers' were worth better than they. When I landed at there were scores of black bodies lying in the sand. Then I realized that it was impossible not to consider them full-fledged American citizens.”
John Ford (1894–1973) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to the observation by French film critic Samuel Lachize that "some people detected—wrongly, Lachize added—some racist aspects in his work"; as quoted in "Notes of a Press Attaché: John Ford in Paris, 1966" by…