Frank Darabont
Frank Darabont
Frank Arpad Darabontis a French-Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career he was primarily a screenwriter for horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob and The Fly II. As a director he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novels such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 January 1959
CityMontbeliard, France
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It's true, I am a control freak and I am incredibly anal-retentive, as my friend Stephen King has pointed out.
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Every aspect of directing is kind of a difficult one for me.
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It occurred to me last year that we were coming up on a 10-year anniversary, and I thought, I've been meaning to do a special edition DVD for some years anyway, what better time to do that,
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And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.
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You never know where your best intentions will get derailed, where challenges can defeat you.
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There was obviously a concern, because nobody sets out to make a three-hour movie. Nobody particularly wants that.
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I wrote a script, Steven loved it, wanted to shoot it this year. George didn't love it, it got sort of lost between two conflicting opinions and now I think they're trying to figure out what, if anything, to do from here,
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He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.
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Well, you don't want to go too far afield with a character like Indiana Jones. You want to keep it somewhat real but my God, there's certainly an element of the fantastic with Indiana Jones that you lack with Ethan Hunt.
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Steven Spielberg's a huge influence on a lot of people, and Schindler's List still looks like a great movie.
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Because I've really got to fall in love before I want to direct again. I don't want to do it just to do it.
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But hey, as they say in The Godfather, this is the business we have chosen. Things turn out, sometimes they don't.
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I'll take a walk up on the hill or whatever, just get out and let my mind float around the problem rather than trying to attack it directly.
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I really don't think that by the time we're trying to get the audience to see Fahrenheit 451 they're going to be confused with Michael Moore's movie at all.