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… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
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. — Frank Capra Copy Share
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. — Frank Capra Copy Share
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra Copy Share
Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed — Frank Capra Copy Share
Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge… — Frank Capra Copy Share
I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of… — Frank Capra Copy Share
Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't… — Frank Capra Copy Share
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… — Frank Capra Copy Share
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. — Frank Capra Copy Share
Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism - they're all… — Frank Capra Copy Share
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… — Frank Capra Copy Share
I happen to think that Jesus was the greatest hero of all time. I don't think you could invent that kind of a hero.… — Frank Capra Copy Share
I have a sixth sense for casting. I just have to see and talk to the actors. I never make tests. I like to… — Frank Capra Copy Share
The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they surrender -… — Frank Capra Copy Share
