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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I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.
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I should thank God or somebody for inventing Michael Clarke Duncan,
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Even in The Green Mile, towards the end, there were moments where I was moved and the water still turns on.
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You go to see a movie nowadays, and its completely pre-digested for you. You leave it in the theater the moment you walk out the door; you don't take it home with you.
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The tone of The Green Mile is so delicate and dramatic.
Well, I think it's important to always have a sense of humor.
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Well, if you focus on the human story, everything else is gravy.
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I think Michael really brings the heart and the soul to this thing. The character of Coffey has to be perfection. If that role isn't perfection, if it's not played to perfection by an actor who can be vulnerable and expose his heart, I think the movie fails.
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Mission Impossible 3 was actually a total gas for me. It was really fun.
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My favorite was the Green Mile parody in Mad Magazine.
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My flat-out favorite movie of the year was Toy Story 2.
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Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature.
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My editor and I had a theory that if the movie engages their attention, they won't mind sitting there for three hours - which I find true myself.
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If I read a script that I have enormous respect for and I don't know what to do to it, then I'm going to be honest about that.