Frank Capra
Frank Capra
Frank Russell Caprawas an Italian-American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American dream personified."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 May 1897
CountryUnited States of America
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Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed
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One of these books isn't, by any chance, called 'Filibusters I Have Known,' is it?
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My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
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They tell me that you've kept track of everything the Senate has done for the past several decades. My five-foot diary.
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The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
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I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make the film. And I believed the director should be that one man. One man should do it - I didn't give a damn who. I just couldn't accept art as a committee. I could only accept art as an extension of an individual.
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Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.
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In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
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Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself.
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The best pictures are yet to be made.
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If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.
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In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?
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I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.
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The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they surrender - surrender their defenses, their hostilities. And once you make an audience laugh, they're with you. And they listen to you if you've got something to say. I have a theory that if you can make them laugh, they're your friends.