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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The fascinating thing about this third one is it's a much more realistic and much more gritty approach to a Mission Impossible movie than has been seen before.
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I'm glad that stuff like this and The Green Mile and Dolores Claiborne and Stand By Me have brought Stephen King properly into focus as a storyteller.
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And I've come to a place where I'm really very anxious to be focusing on getting my own movies made and not wrestling with other people's problems and other people's deadlines.
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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.
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To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
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Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
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Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
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I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
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I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
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I am fascinated with times past.
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The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
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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.
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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.