Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow

Revenge proves its own executioner.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

[in 1967] I am a liberal Democrat and a rebel.

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

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

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

[Darryl F. Zanuck on The Grapes of Wrath (1940)] It`s a good picture. It`s meaty and down to earth. But I think it needs a happier ending.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

[on Native American Indians] We`ve treated them badly, it`s a blot on our shield; we`ve robbed, cheated, murdered and massacred them, but they kill one white man and God, out come the troops.

My name is John Ford and I make Westerns.

As a beauty, Dolores del Rio is in a class with [Greta Garbo]. Then she opens her mouth and becomes Minnie Mouse.

[On John Wayne] Duke is the best actor in Hollywood.

For a director there are commercial rules that it is necessary to obey. In our profession, an artistic failure is nothing; a commercial failure is a sentence. The secret is to make films that please the public and also allow the director to reveal his personality.

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.

It`s no use talking to me about art, I make pictures to pay the rent.

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

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.

I love making pictures but I don`t like talking about them.