62 Quotes by John Frankenheimer

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don’t want to have dinner with someone I don’t like.

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

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 disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

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.

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

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

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.

One of the other things I think that I’ve been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

I look at actors very closely. It’s not an accident when the actors excel.