Frankenheimer Quotes
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A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.
— John Frankenheimer
Casting is 65 percent of directing.
— John Frankenheimer
I really, really love directing films.
— John Frankenheimer
I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
— John Frankenheimer
Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.
— Eddie Cochran
If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.
— J.R.D. Tata
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
— 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.
— John Frankenheimer
Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.
— Fritz Machlup
I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
— John Frankenheimer
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
— John Frankenheimer
One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
— John Frankenheimer
I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.
— Rodney King
I know you're there. I can smell your filthy cigars!
— Thomas Hardy
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.
— Siri Hustvedt
The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.
— John Frankenheimer
I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.
— John Frankenheimer
We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect.
— Libba Bray
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
— Mary Shelley
One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
— John Frankenheimer
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
— George Bernard Shaw
If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.
— John Frankenheimer
The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.
— John Frankenheimer
The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.
— John Frankenheimer
If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.
— John Frankenheimer
So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
— John Frankenheimer
