Frank Darabont Quotes

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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 Christmas favorite, because…
• 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: too stupid to…
• A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
• I am fascinated with times past.
• I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
• Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
• I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an…
• To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
• The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to…
• Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
• Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
• I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
• I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
• The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
• The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
• Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and…
• And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

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