Frank Capra Quotes

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

Film and art are close together.

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.

Film has always been where my heart is.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

You know what the material is so that you never play it the same way twice.

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

I am very interested in behind the scenes, and I am very creative.

It couldn't interest me less, the idea of putting a living room on stage. I just think, what's the point of walking into a theater to see a living room? A sofa in a forest? Now you're talking.