Quotes About Frank Abagnale

I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.

in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man.

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.'