Capote Quotes
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
Truman Capote: On the night of November 14th, two men broke into a quiet farmhouse in Kansas and murdered an entire family. Why did they do that? Two worlds exist in this country: the quiet conservative life, and and the life of those two men - the underbelly, the criminally violent. Those two worlds converged that bloody night.
Truman Capote: I had lunch with Jimmy Baldwin the other day.
Party date: How is he?
Truman Capote: He's lovely, he's a lovely man. And he told me the plot of his new book. And he said, "I just wanted to make sure it's not one of those problem novels," you know. And I said , "Jimmy. Your book is about a Negro homosexual who's in love with a Jew. Wouldn't you call that a problem?"
[everyone laughs]
Party date: How is he?
Truman Capote: He's lovely, he's a lovely man. And he told me the plot of his new book. And he said, "I just wanted to make sure it's not one of those problem novels," you know. And I said , "Jimmy. Your book is about a Negro homosexual who's in love with a Jew. Wouldn't you call that a problem?"
[everyone laughs]
[last title cards]
Title card: _In Cold Blood_ made Truman Capote the most famous writer in America. He never finished another book.
Title card: The epigraph he chose for his last, unfinished work reads: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
Title card: He died in 1984 of complications due to alcoholism.
Title card: _In Cold Blood_ made Truman Capote the most famous writer in America. He never finished another book.
Title card: The epigraph he chose for his last, unfinished work reads: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
Title card: He died in 1984 of complications due to alcoholism.
