Darabont Frank Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist. — Laurie Holden

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent. — Cornel West

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

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

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

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

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

If not now, when? — Eckhart Tolle

The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people and how these survivors deal. I think that's so much more of an interesting story, and that's what really gets and hooks these readers into the book and the show. It's a mix of fans of drama, fans of AMC, fans of horror and fans of Frank [Darabont]. It's a lot of people just coming together and realizing a genre doesn't have to be fixed in one specific detail. — Steven Yeun

When The Walking Dead officially got greenlit, Frank Darabont called me up and said, "My passion project just got off the ground. There's a role I think you're perfect for. Would you consider the role of Andrea?" And I was like, "Wow, I'd love to take a look at it." So, I read the pilot script and was knocked out. — Laurie Holden

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

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? — Thomas Hobbes

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

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. — B.B. King

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

Jah know, sometimes I don't learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. So — Marlon James

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

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

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

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

One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day. — Michael Wolf

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