Best 16 quotes of Frank Darabont on MyQuotes

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

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

I am fascinated with times past.

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.

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

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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