#de

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

— John Frankenheimer

#films #i #i think #made #pretty

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys. ↗

— Tom Stewart

#easy #goes #help #man #play

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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#another #back #behind #city #dailies

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

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

— John Frankenheimer

#closely #excel #i #look #very

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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#good #good actors #great #i #i think

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

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#attacks #being #both #diminish #director

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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#going #how #movie #really #someone