This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. That line from John Ford’s seminal 1962 western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, doesn’t just encapsulate the movie’s theme, Ford’s overall career, or even the entirety of the … Continue reading Print the Legend: Westerns at the Sie Film Center
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. —John Ford Continue reading Born On This Day — February 01, 1894
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it’s all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters. —Samuel Fuller Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, February 26, 2013
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. —John Ford Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, February 24, 2013
I love making pictures but I don’t like talking about them. —John Ford Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, February 1, 2013
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 … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, December 15, 2012
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. —John Ford Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, September 16, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 