Frank Darabont Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Frank Darabont:

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#409290f6

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#96b55818

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#4bf62317

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#a289bdeb

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#2f931acc

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#785cf21e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#db96164b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#01dec0a9

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#bb11e734

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#f5de1541

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#91ec6959

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#9ebb5319

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#e03f659a

I am fascinated with times past.
~Frank Darabont


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#6a9a2551

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#a879e42e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-darabont-quotes/#b85f0263

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