Frank Darabont Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

I am fascinated with times past. — Frank Darabont

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

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

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

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

I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me. — Frank Darabont

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all. — Frank Darabont