With his muse – John Wayne.<\/p>\n
Howard Hawks said, “If you want to know how to make movies – all you need to do is watch the movies of John Ford. That’s it.”<\/p>\n
Feel free to talk about the movies of his that you love and hold dear in the comments – I’d love to hear! In the meantime – here are some of the anecdotes about this dude that I know off the top of my head.<\/p>\n
An impatient producer visited the set of some movie Ford was directing.<\/p>\n
The producer said to Ford: “You are two weeks behind schedule!! This is an outrage!”<\/p>\n
John Ford then picked up the script, ripped out 20 pages, and barked back, “Now we’re two weeks ahead <\/i>of schedule.”<\/p>\n
Some funny anecdotes about him in this post <\/a>– including how mean he could be and how he actually brought John Wayne to tears once.<\/p>\n Here’s a post with a link<\/a> to a terrific Stanley Crouch article on John Wayne and John Ford<\/p>\n And then there are all the quotes from Bogdonavich’s essay about John Wayne – that I posted some of here on the blog.<\/p>\n Anecdote<\/a><\/p>\n Here Wayne talks about Ford<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here on how Ford would shoot reaction shots of Wayne<\/a><\/p>\n The Wayne thing <\/a>(really honed and created by Ford – or, it was a joint production. Ford gave him those parts – and Wayne filled them up)<\/p>\n Wayne and Ford’s first meeting<\/a><\/p>\n Happy birthday John Ford (or – should I say: Sean Aloysius O’Fearna??)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With his muse – John Wayne. Howard Hawks said, “If you want to know how to make movies – all you need to do is watch the movies of John Ford. That’s it.” Feel free to talk about the movies … Continue reading