Capra Quotes

10 quotes by 8 authors

• Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it.… — Barbara Stanwyck
• I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph. — Tom Shadyac
• When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I`ve never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures.… — John Cassavetes
• Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again. — Matthew Modine
• I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out… — David O. Russell
• One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years.… — David O. Russell
• Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the… — Manny Farber
• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly… — Manny Farber
• Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing,… — Francis Ford Coppola
• I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love. — Rob Zombie

Who Wrote These Capra Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 10 Capra Quotes as follows:

• 2 Capra Quotes by David O. Russell
• 2 Capra Quotes by Manny Farber
• 1 Capra Quote by Barbara Stanwyck
• 1 Capra Quote by Tom Shadyac
• 1 Capra Quote by John Cassavetes
• 1 Capra Quote by Matthew Modine
• 1 Capra Quote by Francis Ford Coppola
• 1 Capra Quote by Rob Zombie