Frank Darabont Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I am fascinated with times past.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.