Top 19 Frank Darabont Quotes
#1. The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.
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#2. Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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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#5. I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
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#9. A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
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#10. I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.
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#11. The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
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#14. Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
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#15. 'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
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#16. I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
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#17. 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.
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#19. To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
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