JOHN FORD Rare interview (1965) — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:04what did you think
3. 0:06you would
4. 0:08achieve
5. 0:09when you made your first pictures
6. 0:14i thought i would achieve a check
7. 0:16for money
8. 0:18that's all i thought about
9. 0:21and when did you start thinking
10. 0:24that
11. 0:26there was something more
12. 0:28than checks behind it
13. 0:32this is my business
14. 0:34my profession it's a way that i support
15. 0:36my family
16. 0:37i love the business i like the people
17. 0:40i am not what is called a career
18. 0:43director
19. 0:44what do you mean by that
20. 0:48[Music]
21. 0:49you don't want to say try english would
22. 0:51you train english
23. 0:53i understand english even if i don't
24. 0:55speak it very well i understand english
25. 0:58is that what you're speaking english i'm
26. 1:00sorry are you speaking english
27. 1:06some men
28. 1:08they'll make a good picture then they
29. 1:10keep trying and trying
30. 1:12they won't work for a year and a half
31. 1:14they're trying to beat the last one i
32. 1:16just keep on going making pictures good
33. 1:18bad and different i just like to be
34. 1:21around the studios i like the people i
35. 1:23work
36. 1:25i with
37. 1:25absolutely without ambition
38. 1:28i have no ambition
39. 1:31i like pictures i like to make pictures
40. 1:34when you make pictures like stagecoach
41. 1:36for instance
42. 1:38you very well know you you you mustn't
43. 1:40pretend you do not know it is a very
44. 1:43good picture
45. 1:45nothing is sort
46. 1:47i have never seen stagecoach
47. 1:49what do you mean you've never seen it
48. 1:50i've never seen it on the screen
49. 1:55i tried to see it on television but
50. 1:57there were so many commercials
51. 2:00but i turned it off
52. 2:03and what about my darling clementine
53. 2:09i don't know
54. 2:11i think i saw that
55. 2:14i saw it on television but the
56. 2:15commercials were you know was shot
57. 2:21how do you feel about this making
58. 2:24stage coach today
59. 2:28nothing
60. 2:30it's still a good story
61. 2:33i think they're a little stupid a little
62. 2:34foolish to try to do it again
63. 2:38i think it's a mistake on their part but
64. 2:40then go ahead
65. 2:42why do you think it's a mistake
66. 2:44why do you think
67. 2:46it's a mistake
68. 2:48kiss kilimanjaro
69. 3:02um
70. 3:12why do i think it's a mistake yeah
71. 3:15you never recapture you never recapture
72. 3:17something you've done like that
73. 3:19it's a good story but it'll be it'll
74. 3:21turn out differently
75. 3:23you never recapture those things
76. 3:26there's never been a successful remake
77. 3:29you
78. 3:30the
79. 3:31mr ford you pretend
80. 3:33not to be interested
81. 3:36after you have made film a picture
82. 3:39by this picture
83. 3:40that's right
84. 3:43pretend is very rude i'm sorry
85. 3:48you said something which meant that no i
86. 3:51think in the next picture
87. 3:53you think of the next picture
88. 3:56but does it happen that among the tenths
89. 3:58you can you said tens
90. 4:00of pictures you made does it happen that
91. 4:02there is one
92. 4:03or two or several
93. 4:06which you particularly like
94. 4:13yes but you've never heard of them
95. 4:16anyway
96. 4:17which were little pictures
97. 4:20they didn't make any money but lost
98. 4:22money but
99. 4:23no stars but they came out perfectly for
100. 4:25me
101. 4:28none of the big pictures like you know
102. 4:29yeah
103. 4:30can you can you name one
104. 4:37young mr lincoln the young mr lincoln
105. 4:41the sun shines bright
106. 4:43the sunshine is bright
107. 4:46he knows them
108. 4:48i like them
109. 4:51yes i like to see
110. 5:08just a westerner
111. 5:11well why they sent me
112. 5:13i've got to have dinner i eat you know
113. 5:15i've been working all day