Frank Darabont Quotes (33 Quotes)


    Well, I think it's important to always have a sense of humor.

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

    The fascinating thing about this third one is it's a much more realistic and much more gritty approach to a Mission Impossible movie than has been seen before.

    Of course, horrorfantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature.

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


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

    I'll take a walk up on the hill or whatever, just get out and let my mind float around the problem rather than trying to attack it directly.

    My editor and I had a theory that if the movie engages their attention, they won't mind sitting there for three hours - which I find true myself.

    Mission Impossible 3 was actually a total gas for me. It was really fun.

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

    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.

    He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.

    There was obviously a concern, because nobody sets out to make a three-hour movie. Nobody particularly wants that.

    It gave me a moment's pause, because I certainly wasn't looking for the next prison movie to make.

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

    I love having a context of a certain period of time in which to tell a story.

    And I've come to a place where I'm really very anxious to be focusing on getting my own movies made and not wrestling with other people's problems and other people's deadlines.

    You never know where your best intentions will get derailed, where challenges can defeat you.

    Even in The Green Mile, towards the end, there were moments where I was moved and the water still turns on.

    It's true, I am a control freak and I am incredibly anal-retentive, as my friend Stephen King has pointed out.

    But hey, as they say in The Godfather, this is the business we have chosen. Things turn out, sometimes they don't.


    I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

    It occurred to me last year that we were coming up on a 10-year anniversary, and I thought, I've been meaning to do a special edition DVD for some years anyway, what better time to do that,

    Steven Spielberg's a huge influence on a lot of people, and Schindler's List still looks like a great movie.

    My favorite was the Green Mile parody in Mad Magazine.

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

    I think Michael really brings the heart and the soul to this thing. The character of Coffey has to be perfection. If that role isn't perfection, if it's not played to perfection by an actor who can be vulnerable and expose his heart, I think the movie fails.

    I really don't think that by the time we're trying to get the audience to see Fahrenheit 451 they're going to be confused with Michael Moore's movie at all.

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

    If I read a script that I have enormous respect for and I don't know what to do to it, then I'm going to be honest about that.

    You go to see a movie nowadays, and its completely pre-digested for you. You leave it in the theater the moment you walk out the door you don't take it home with you.

    He's got such a spark of humanity, real humanism, in his work, even in the more obviously horror pieces, ... That's what I found most compelling about this story. It was a hell of an emotional journey.


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