"In our film profession you may have Gable's……" — Frank Capra
"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 that swinging thing called courage."
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25 Quotes by Frank Capra
Frank Capra has 25 quotes on this site.
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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
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I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
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There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
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If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.
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Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell…
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In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace…
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Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the…
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Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed
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I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve…
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My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!
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The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
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There are no rules in filmmaking
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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