Becoming John Ford

00:02:14 It's no use asking me to talk about art.

00:05:33 And John Ford.

00:09:09 meaning he didn't have high status as a director.

00:12:47 Everybody was told he was the world's most important director.

00:17:23 But in the entire history of famous directors in Hollywood...

00:20:24 Darryl will be in charge of production. "

00:23:47 - Wait a minute. You got it wrong. - I made a mistake. Do it over again.

00:26:50 The average person would make a movie called They Are Expendable.

00:30:03 that has totally disappeared.

00:34:07 as far as mood is concerned.

00:37:53 a kind of devious Irish self-protection.

00:41:28 I was attempting a controversial subject...

00:44:48 By that I mean, uh, he did it without blinking.

00:48:33 Ma.

00:51:54 Their cooperation in pooling all of their money in the apron at the end of the workday.

00:56:49 and through all the experience that he had gone through...

01:00:33 And it's not as much a report on the battle as a meditation on the battle.

01:06:07 I think made him more aware of historical issues than he'd even been before.

01:09:34 I like to leave this place with the smog and fog and traffic and freeways.

01:13:28 It's the most memorable moment that, uh, Ford was able to get out of my dad.

01:16:53 But to me, the picture as a whole is a disappointment.

01:20:28 the world changing and becoming something that you no longer recognize.

01:23:58 And the sentence is very tough.

01:27:27 That year my father, who's a painter, um...