62 Quotes by John Frankenheimer

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 think it’s any of my business.

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 material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

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.

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

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

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 some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

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

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