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John Frankenheimer

American Director

Born: Feb 19, 1930

Died: Jul 6, 2002

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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

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I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director. John Frankenheimer

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

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

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

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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

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The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized. John Frankenheimer

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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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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

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There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world. John Frankenheimer

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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

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And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable. John Frankenheimer

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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

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

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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

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