Quotes from Frank Darabont

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

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

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

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

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

I am fascinated with times past.

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.

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.

And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

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

'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.

The mouse ducks (yes, actually ducks)

This one has Olive Oyl getting it doggy-style from Popeye.

The house seems to shudder in that moment as if the entire world has shifted an inch to the right…

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

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.

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.

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

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

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