62 Quotes by John Frankenheimer

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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