Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd
Frank William George Lloydwas an American film director, scriptwriter and producer. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934-35...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 February 1886
dedication devotion happen hard price
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen
capable city incredibly
The city has been incredibly capable of reinventing itself, with shorter and shorter cycles.
architecture fine human values
All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
busy march weekend
The first weekend in March is usually the end of our busy season. But this year, with the way things are going, it may keep up a little longer.
wisdom finding-yourself architecture
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
california southern slides
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
boys smoking mind
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
life men artist
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
farewell artist house
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
lying simple ideas
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination
blind-spots america today
Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.
architecture landlord knows
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
book writing four
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
cities doubt world
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.