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
kept past senate several track
They tell me that you've kept track of everything the Senate has done for the past several decades. My five-foot diary.
filmmaking
There are no rules in filmmaking
spiritual prayer struggle
Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.
advice trends young
My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!
music two three
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
doors stardust divine
Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.
laughing given advantage
One is never completely satisfied. But I can say that I'm not dissatisfied. I've been very fortunate. I've been given some gifts - to take advantage of the contemporary times when I made movies. Gifts to make audiences laugh.
best-picture made
The best pictures are yet to be made.
racket understood whole
Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed
isms world kind
Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.
fighting political mafia
When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.
suicide mean adversity
Man must be able to recover, to win out, triumph over adversity. And I don't mean just the little adversity like paying his room rent or something. But those deep, deep human adversities because something he has faith in has turned to ashes. Where someone he loves turns out to be just another joke. You get to the point of suicide. But you can bounce back - they can't completely destroy you.