John Frankenheimer Quotes

• Casting is 65 percent of directing.

  John Frankenheimer

  Movie, Inspiring, Casting

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• There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

  John Frankenheimer

  Two, Hiking, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Jobs, Accolades

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Directors, Experts, Found

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• The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

  John Frankenheimer

  Directors, Assistants, Importance

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• 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

  Want, Dinner

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Looks, Actors, Accidents

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Actors, Lessons, Firsts

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• I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

  John Frankenheimer

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

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• 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, Keys, Creative

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• 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

  Thinking, Directors, Want

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• You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

  John Frankenheimer

  Mean, Tools, Stories

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Choices, Important, Directors

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• 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

  Mistake, Actors, Aspect

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Thinking, 80s And 90s, Film

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Firsts, I Can

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• The world is full of beautiful girls. But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented. She brings a hell of a lot to the party.

  John Frankenheimer

  Beautiful, Girl, Fun

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Thinking, Able, Life Is

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Jobs, People, Creative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really, really love directing films.

  John Frankenheimer

  Film, Directing Film

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

  John Frankenheimer

  Directors, Assistants, Lasts

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

  John Frankenheimer

  Needs, Way, Assignments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Cities, People, Office

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