John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer
John Michael Frankenheimerwas an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, The Train, Seconds, Grand Prix, French Connection II, Black Sunday, and Ronin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
firsts actors lessons
One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
cities people office
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.
real trouble wells
If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.
technology keys creative
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.
mean stories actors
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.
directors experts found
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
jobs accolades
The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job
actors looks accidents
I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
thinking actors that-one-person
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.
assistants directors importance
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
two hiking world
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.
casting filmmaker percent
Casting is 65 percent of directing.
beautiful girl fun
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.