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
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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 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.
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One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
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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.
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I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
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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.
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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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The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and in a sense retain your innocence and try and practice as much humility as you can.
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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.
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I became kind of like the village blacksmith after the invention of the automobile, ... There just was nowhere to go. Obviously, the next thing for me was directing movies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But I don't have any great secrets for anybody, you know, I really don't. I don't do anything that lots of other people don't do.