More from the transcript of the interview John Wayne gave with Peter Bogdonavich – This is FAScinating. I wish all action stars looked at their jobs in this way – we’d get some better movies.
Any time there was a chance for a reaction — which is the most important thing in a motion picture — he [John Ford] always took reactions of me, so I’d be a part of every scene. Because I had a great deal of time in the picture when other people were talking, and all my stuff was just reactions. They become very important throughout a picture, they build your part. They always say I’m in action movies, but it’s in reaction pictures that they remember me — pictures that are full of reactions, but have a background of action.
