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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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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


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If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.


— John Frankenheimer


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One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.


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


— John Frankenheimer


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


— John Frankenheimer


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The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.


— John Frankenheimer


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The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.


— John Frankenheimer


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In later years Frankenheimer theorized that the audience may have developed an affinity over the course of the movie for the character played by Bruce Dern and thus felt conflicted when he was defeated at the end. In any event it was re-released to great acclaim in 1988. Birdman of Alcatraz
Production of Birdman of Alcatraz began under director Charles Crichton.

He developed a "tremendous propensity for exploring political situations" which would ensnare his characters. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Seven Days in May (1964) The Train (1964) Grand Prix (1966) Black Sunday (1977) and Ronin (1998). ".

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