John Frankenheimer Quotes

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• The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility…
• Casting is 65 percent of directing.
• One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well
• 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…
• 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 accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job
• 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…
• I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.
• I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
• 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…
• I really, really love directing films.
• I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well…

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