#co

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus. ↗

— Al Franken

#argument #asking #bias #conservative #liberal

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. ↗

— Al Franken

#both #contradicts #encounter #good #good advice

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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#assistant #because #choice #choose #conduct

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

— John Frankenheimer

#director #experts #found #i #less

Beauty and folly are old companions. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#companions #folly #old

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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#am #because #cable #choice #company

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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#continually #creative #director #element #erode

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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#business #chooses #commercial #develop #direct

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

— John Frankenheimer

#come #dead #get #job #old

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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

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