"All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it."

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If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.

— Frank Capra