Film Quotes by 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…

— John Frankenheimer

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

— John Frankenheimer

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

— John Frankenheimer

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

— John Frankenheimer

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

— John Frankenheimer

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…

— John Frankenheimer

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

— John Frankenheimer

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen…

— John Frankenheimer

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…

— John Frankenheimer

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder…

— John Frankenheimer

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up…

— John Frankenheimer

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

— John Frankenheimer

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…

— John Frankenheimer

A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind…

— John Frankenheimer

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

— John Frankenheimer