"Look at the eyes"

"Look at the eyes," Ford replied when asked how one should watch a motion picture. He was giving us a clue about how to understand himself: "The secret is people's faces, their eye expression, their movements."

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"Don't act with your chin. It's here [gesturing to the eyes]—here's where you think. Not with your chin, for Chrissake. Up here."

Pilgrimage (1933), John Ford