I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. – Frank Capra
In our film profession you may have Gables looks, Tracys art, Marlenes legs or Lizs violet eyes, but they dont mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. – Frank Capra
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesnt. – Jean-Luc Godard
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler