Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.
I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.
When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.
I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.
Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.