A good picture, as we all know, starts with a story. The next thing is to tell that story pictorially. [...] Fast-moving, pictorial, not overloaded with dialogue. You could see that picture without dialogue and know what it was all about. That was the secret of John Ford's pictures. You could run any one of his pictures silent, and you'd still know what they were all about.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A good picture, as we all know, starts with a story. The next thing is to tell that story pictorially. [...] Fast-moving, pictorial, not overloaded with dialogue. You could see that picture without dialogue and know what it was all about. That was the secret of John Ford's pictures. You could run any one of his pictures silent, and you'd still know what they were all about." in the context of "Arthur Miller (the cinematographer who shot Ford's Wee Willie Winkie as well as How Green Was My Valley, for which both he and Ford won Oscars, as did the picture itself), speaking c. June 1970, with Leonard Maltin, in Behind the Camera (1971) by Maltin, p. 69" to mean that wisdom is timeless.