[Darryl F. Zanuck on The Grapes of Wrath] "It's a good picture. It's meaty and down-to-earth. But I think it needs a happier ending." "I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them." "Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes." "It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor." "It's no use talking to me about art, I make pictures to pay the rent." "I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk." "For a director there are commercial rules that it is necessary to obey. In our profession, an artistic failure is nothing; a commercial failure is a sentence. The secret is to make films that please the public and also allow the director to reveal his personality." [On John Wayne] "Duke is the best actor in Hollywood." "As a beauty, Dolores del Rio is in a class with Garbo. Then she opens her mouth and becomes Minnie Mouse." "My name is John Ford and I make Westerns."