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 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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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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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,
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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It's been a great run of good fortune for me as a writer.
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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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I love having a context of a certain period of time in which to tell a story.
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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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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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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.