Frank Capra Quotes

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

Mail is quick. Telegraph is quicker. Telephone is instantaneous.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

I spend almost every morning with mail.

I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it's always easier to be nicer afterwards.

If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.

Email is the greatest thing.

Be brief. Above all things be brief.

Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.

I am sending this message to you by wire, since I want to be certain that this message reaches you in the right place at the right time.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these faithful couriers from the swift accomplishment of their appointed rounds.

The exchanges of commerce demand stated, reliable, and rapid means of communication.

I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

Tone is very important to me.

If you're looking for ways of getting quick communication, maybe texting is the way to go. People can't walk these days without having one hand balancing a smart phone. If that's the way people are going to live, it is the case that something that vibrates in their hand is going to get their attention more quickly than an email.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.