John Ford Quotes

“I am a mushroom
On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.”
― John Ford, Broken Heart

“In the stout-hearted person of Harrison Ford, Indy was a new generation’s Ethan Edwards—a young John Wayne-bwana dispatched to curate the Third World. Not an identity-cloaked sci-fi superhero but a bullwhip-toting, fedora-wearing, two-fisted sophisticate who respected the Bible and saved the children of India—a superb hero yet an intrinsically nostalgic figure.”
― Armond White, Make Spielberg Great Again: The Steven Spielberg Chronicles

“I want to be a tugboat captain,' he says. But God made him a poet, and he must make the best of that.”
― Lindsay Anderson, Never Apologise: The Collected Writings

“The symptoms of poverty are timeless, and Winston knew exactly who the weepy kid looked like: an extra from John Ford's Grapes of Wrath. A Brooklyn Joad, sullied from head to toe with the grime of parental and societal neglect.”
― Paul Beatty, Tuff