John Frankenheimer Quotes

Casting is 65 percent of directing.
John Frankenheimer

Percent, Directing, Casting

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
John Frankenheimer

Work, Best, Job

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.
John Frankenheimer

Life, Someone, Point

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
John Frankenheimer

Accident, Excel, Closely

I really, really love directing films.
John Frankenheimer

Love, Films, Directing

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.
John Frankenheimer

Pretty, Films, Decent

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
John Frankenheimer

Control, Less, Found

If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.
John Frankenheimer

Mistakes, Whole, Off

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.
John Frankenheimer

Real, Trouble, Cast

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
John Frankenheimer

Learn, Actor, Listen

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
John Frankenheimer

Life, Able, Listen

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
John Frankenheimer

Great, Movies, Last

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.
John Frankenheimer

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.
John Frankenheimer

Important, Person, Choice

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.
John Frankenheimer

Love, Work, Tell

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
John Frankenheimer

Cannot, Director, Importance

A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.
John Frankenheimer

Old, Put, Another

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.
John Frankenheimer

Time, Money, Best

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.
John Frankenheimer

God, Everyone, Write

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
John Frankenheimer

Choice, Company, Line

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.
John Frankenheimer

Business, Movies, Position

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
John Frankenheimer

Technology, Trying, Creative

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
John Frankenheimer

Mean, Revolution, Put

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.
John Frankenheimer

Women, Men, Sense

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
John Frankenheimer

Good, Great, Learned

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 19, 1930

Died: July 6, 2002

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