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 I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story. If you look at a classic horror movie like `The Exorcist,` part of what makes it so scary is that it feels so damn real. If you add a layer of too much hysterical, theatrical reality, then audiences take it less seriously. But if you play it for absolute reality, then the dread and the horror - which is why we go to horror movies in the first place - is reinforced.
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On Stephen King (jokingly): "We have a joke now - because the first two films I directed were period prison movies - that my directing career will stall unless he writes another period prison story" -- Frank Darabont, Creative Screenwriting
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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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To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
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A director shouldn`t get in the way of the movie, the story should.
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On Quentin Tarantino: "I find Quentin`s work very interesting, because he does dabble so well in the nihilistic world, but yet, there`s a real streak of humanity in his work. It`s not about the nihilism, it`s about people in a sense operating as honorably as they can in a nihilistic world." -- Frank Darabont, Creative Screenwriting
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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. --Premiere, October 1994
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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.
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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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I am fascinated with times past.
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Steven was very, very happy with the script and said it was the best draft of anything since Raiders of the Lost Ark. That`s really high praise and gave me a real sense of accomplishment, especially when you love the material you`re working on as much as I love the Indiana Jones films. And then you have George Lucas read it and say, `Yeah, I don`t think so, I don`t like it.` And then he resets it to zero when Spielberg is ready to shoot it that coming year, [which] is a real kick to the nuts. You can only waste so much time and so many years of your life on experiences like that, you can only get so emotionally invested and have the rug pulled out from under you before you say enough of that. (on his rejected script for Indiana Jones 4)
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Trivia
Wrote a draft of the screenplay for Collateral (2004).
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Good friends with Stephen King.
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The D-Day sequence at Normandy in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) was an addition that Darabont himself proposed during script revisions.
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Often casts actors Jeffrey DeMunn and William Sadler in his movies.
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His first novella "Walpuski's Typewriter" was published in 2005.
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After closely working for more than a year with Steven Spielberg on a script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), the script was personally rejected by producer George Lucas who had taken it upon himself to rewrite the script to his liking. Spielberg loved the script, but deferred to longtime pal Lucas on the matter.
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is ranked #23 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.
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