Father Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.

— Barbara Billingsley

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man,…

— Vicki Lawrence

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public…

— Woody Allen

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

— Stanley Kubrick

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

— Matthew Modine

My favorite filmmaker is Frank Capra. He talked about the redemption of the human spirit - not the superhero, but the common man.

— Bill Duke

Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today,…

— Eugene Jarecki

“A 1945 film called Japan: Know Your Enemy, directed by Frank Capra (who directed several popular motion pictures during the 1930s and ’40s, including…

— David Livingstone Smith

You have that Frank Capra kind of side to it and the characters are really well drawn, so I think everybody tried their best…

— Jeff Bridges

I was fishing with director Frank Capra once and we talked about retirement.

— Fred MacMurray

The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many…

— Joy Reid

I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of…

— David Copperfield

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

— Tom Shadyac

I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

— Haley Bennett

I went to visit Frank Capra, one of my idols, and did a kind of Judd Apatow interview with him. I said, "I'd like…

— David Copperfield