Frank Darabont Quotes

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

- Frank Darabont

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

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

- Frank Darabont

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

- Frank Darabont

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

- Frank Darabont

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

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

- Frank Darabont

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

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

- Frank Darabont

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

- Frank Darabont

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

- Frank Darabont

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

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

- Frank Darabont

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

- Frank Darabont

I am fascinated with times past.

- Frank Darabont