Capra Quotes
10 quotes by 8 authors
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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
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
— Tom Shadyac
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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
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Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.
— Matthew Modine
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: