Casting is 65 percent of directing.
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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
I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
John Frankenheimer
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
But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
John Frankenheimer
But I don't have any great secrets for anybody, you know, I really don't. I don't do anything that lots of other people don't do.
John Frankenheimer
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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