John Frankenheimer Quotes

•  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.

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•  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.

   

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• You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

  John Frankenheimer

• To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I’ll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning.

  John Frankenheimer

• 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

• There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it’s so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in.

  John Frankenheimer

• Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

  John Frankenheimer

• The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

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• The first thing is that we’re being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They’re trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

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

  John Frankenheimer

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

  John Frankenheimer

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

  John Frankenheimer

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

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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.

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

  John Frankenheimer

• 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

• If you don’t cast well, you can be in real trouble.

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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.

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

  John Frankenheimer

• 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

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Birth:	19th February, 1930
Death:	6th July, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Television Director

About

John Michael Frankenheimer was born in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. He graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1951. He also developed an interest in acting as a career while in college but began thinking seriously about directing when he was in the Air Force. He directed several films include: The Young Stranger, The Young Savages, The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Train, Grand Prix, The Fixer, The Gypsy Moths, The Horsemen, French Connection II, Black Sunday, The Challenge, 52 Pick-Up, The Fourth War, Against the Wall, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Ronin, and Reindeer Games. He won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television movies Against the Wall, The Burning Season, Andersonville, and George Wallace, which also received a Golden Globe award.

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