John Frankenheimer Quotes

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative

If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.

Every actor wants to direct.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

I want to make my own movie.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.