Top 35 Darabont Quotes
#1. I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special.
Laurie Holden
#2. I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.
Laurie Holden
#3. For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching roles from what we usually play, is pretty awesome. That generally doesn't happen, but TNT is a horse of a different color.
Neal McDonough
#4. My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
Frank Darabont
#6. 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
#7. One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
Jeff Goodell
#8. Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity's sake?
Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. "I do what I can." Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. "You are a brave man.
Gail Carriger
#9. Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
Frank Darabont
#10. Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
Frank Darabont
#11. Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
Chris Cornell
#12. Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.
Greg Cox
#13. 'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
Frank Darabont
#14. The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.
Jerry Stahl
#15. I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
Frank Darabont
#16. Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
Scott Westerfeld
#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.
Frank Darabont
#19. Witchcraft is a way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation.
Dacha Avelin
#20. The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
Frank Darabont
#21. My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.
Rob Roberge
#22. 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.
Frank Darabont
#23. A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
Frank Darabont
#24. I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
Frank Darabont
#25. In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
Denise Mina
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
Frank Darabont
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.
James M. Kouzes
#33. Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
Frank Darabont
#34. The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.
Frank Darabont
#35. People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves
Sunday Adelaja
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
