Frankenheimer, John Filmography

• Frankenheimer in Focus (2009)
• Pushing the Limit: The Making of 'Grand Prix' (2006)
• The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
• The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
• Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002)
• Path to War (2002)
• Path to War (2002)
• The Contender: The Making of a Political Thriller (2001)
• Ambush (2001)
• Jazz Seen: The Life and Times of William Claxton (2001)
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001)
• Reindeer Games (2000)
• The Life and Times of Kirk Douglas (2000)
• The General's Daughter (1999)
• Ronin (1998)
• The 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1998)
• George Wallace (1997)
• George Wallace (1997)
• Andersonville (1996)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
• Andersonville (1996)
• 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1996)
• The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995)
• The Burning Season (1994)
• The 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1994)
• The Burning Season (1994)
• Against the Wall (1994)
• Year of the Gun (1991)
• Reflections on 'Citizen Kane' (1991)
• The Fourth War (1990)
• Dead Bang (1989)
• The Manchurian Candidate Interviews (1988)
• Riviera (1987)
• Omnibus: The Last Moguls (1986)
• 52 Pick-Up (1986)
• The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
• The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
• The Rainmaker (1982)
• The Challenge (1982)
• Prophecy (1979)
• Black Sunday (1977)
• Black Sunday (1977)
• French Connection II (1975)
• 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
• The Iceman Cometh (1973)
• Story of a Love Story (1973)
• The Horsemen (1971)
• The Horsemen (1971)
• Frankenheimer (1971)
• I Walk the Line (1970)
• The Sky Divers (1969)
• The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
• The Gypsy Moths (1969)
• The Fixer (1968)
• Lionpower from MGM (1967)
• Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions (1966)
• Seconds (1966)
• Grand Prix (1966)
• Grand Prix (1966)
• Grand Prix (1966)
• Seconds (1966)
• The Train (1964)
• Seven Days in May (1964)
• Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
• All Fall Down (1962)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• The Young Savages (1961)
• The Fifth Column (1960)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1960)
• The Turn of the Screw (1959)
• The Turn of the Screw (1959)
• The Young Stranger (1957)
• Playhouse 90 (1956)
• The Ninth Day (1956)
• Playhouse 90 (1956)
• Playhouse 90 (1956)
• Climax! (1954)
• Climax! (1954)
• Climax! (1954)
• You Are There (1953)

Famous quotes by John Frankenheimer:

"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."

"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."

"I became kind of like the village blacksmith after the invention of the automobile, ... There just was nowhere to go. Obviously, the next thing for me was directing movies."

"I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work."

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

"You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it."

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

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

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

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

"I really, really love directing films."

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

"Casting is 65 percent of directing."

"First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business."

"To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning."

"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."

"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."

"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."