Casting is 65 percent of directing.

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• John Frankenheimer:

  First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors

• John Frankenheimer:

  Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We

• 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:

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

• John Frankenheimer:

  I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie becaus

• John Frankenheimer:

  I really, really love directing films.

• John Frankenheimer:

  I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He g

• John Frankenheimer:

  I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think a

• John Frankenheimer:

  I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

• John Frankenheimer:

  I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors