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I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

Frank Darabont

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Frank Darabont
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 28
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Mont-Réuni
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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
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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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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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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.
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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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The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
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I am fascinated with times past.
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I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.
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I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
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The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.
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I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.
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