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Frank Darabont

(1959) Screenwriter United States

21 quotes in 139 categories

Frank Darabont is a screenwriter from the United States, best known for The Making of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".

Quick Facts About Frank Darabont

Born: January 28, 1959
Nationality: United States
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: The Making of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

About Frank Darabont

Frank Árpád Darabont is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for such horror films as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988), and The Fly II (1989). As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels, such as The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), and The Mist (2007).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Frank Darabont

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Cinema

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Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

Boys

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The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

Effects

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The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out…

Human race

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I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like…

Able

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The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

Impunity

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I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Cinema

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Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at…

Bigs

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I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

Career

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I am fascinated with times past.

Fascinated

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And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

Any

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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal…

All time

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Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

Cavemen

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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Adaptation

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If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures:…

Boxing

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To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Arbitrary

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I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch…

Audience

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I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Appropriate

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The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

Amazing things

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I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it…

Curves

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I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed…

Cinema

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