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One Of The Things I Really Like About Ford's Films Is How There Is Always A Focus On The Way Characters Live, And Not Just The Male Heroes.

I Am Passionately Interested In Understanding How My Country Works. And If You Want To Know About This Thing Called The United States Of America You Have To Know About The Civil War.

I Never, Ever Want To Apologize For A Film. If It's Bad I'll Say It's My Fault. And That's What I Can Say So Far In All The Films That I've Done, That If You Don't Like It, It's Entirely My Fault.

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

Do Something That Will Last And Be Beautiful. It Doesn't Have To Be A Bridge-or A Symphony Or Book Or A Business. It Could Be The Look In The Eye Of A Child You Raise Or A Simple Garden You Tend. Do Something That Will Last And Be Beautiful.