Top 34 Frank Darabont Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The decoding of the human genome tells us that we are indeed related to the animals, the insects, and the plants, and that, like it or not, Earth is where we belong.
Ian McCallum
#3. I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
Virginia Woolf
#4. 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
#5. If I were today on my deathbed, I would name my love of the color blue and making love with you as two of the sweetest sensations I knew on this earth.
Maggie Nelson
#6. Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become ... helpless, impotent, and weak.
James Cameron
#7. Self-knowledge is the stepping stone to self-mastery. Step
Robin S. Sharma
#8. And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.
Brian Moore
#9. The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.
Frank Darabont
#10. Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
Frank Darabont
#11. 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
#12. I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.
Laurie Holden
#13. 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
#14. I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
Frank Darabont
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
Frank Darabont
#18. A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
Frank Darabont
#19. 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
#20. So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
Vincent Van Gogh
#21. The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
Frank Darabont
#22. Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
Rick Warren
#23. I once saw a show about an amputee who lost his leg and still feels it. He actually wakes up at night to scratch his leg as if it's still there, attached to him. They call it a phantom limb.
I would be like that. A phantom draki, tormented with the memory of what I once was.
Sophie Jordan
#24. 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
#25. Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
Frank Darabont
#26. Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
Frank Darabont
#27. Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain.
Kiran Desai
#28. 'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
Frank Darabont
#29. I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
Frank Darabont
#30. 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
#32. When the word ends, there'll be no more air. That's why it's important to pollute the air now.
Kathy Acker
#33. When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.
Francis Bacon
#34. To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
Frank Darabont
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