I was never a soft-focus man--I liked crisp, sharp, solid images.
The basic principle I have had in making pictures was to make them look
like real life, and then emphasize the visuals slightly.
[on John Ford] He never once looked in the camera when we worked
together. You see, the man had bad eyes, as long as I knew him, but he
was a man whose veins ran with the business.
I always gave a director my best, even if he was a truck driver.
[on John Ford] The director I liked working with better than anybody in the industry. You'd only talk, I think you might say, 50 words to him in a day; you had a communication with him so great you could sense what he wanted.