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 per...
[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.
