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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. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#access #because #digital #director #disk

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

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

— John Frankenheimer

#directors #great #had #i #last

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#choice #critical #director #first #important

To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#am #beginning #end #good #i

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

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#character #culture #few #good #his

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#film #good #good film #i #independent

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#i #opportunity #sydney #travel #vietnam

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#begins #first #get #happened #i