Frank Darabont famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Directors #Stories #Way
The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
-- Frank Darabont

#Powerful #Silence #Sound
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 it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
-- Frank Darabont

#Christmas #Suicide #Interesting
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
-- Frank Darabont

#Want #Persons
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
-- Frank Darabont

#Thinking #Film #Enough
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
-- Frank Darabont

#Years #Careers
Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
-- Frank Darabont

#Hate #Boys #Talking
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
-- Frank Darabont

#Wall #Drawing #Cavemen
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 kill one another.
-- Frank Darabont

#Race #Two #Together
To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
-- Frank Darabont

#Arbitrary #Film #Length
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 audience member.
-- Frank Darabont

#Thinking #Watches #Members
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
-- Frank Darabont

#Ideas #Original Ideas #Adaptation
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
-- Frank Darabont

#Thinking #Long #Stories
I am fascinated with times past.
-- Frank Darabont

#Past
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 fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.
-- Frank Darabont

#Stupid #Fall #Feet
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 they are completely unique... completely separate entities.
-- Frank Darabont

#Inspiration #Unique #People

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