Frank Darabont Quotes

"[Then Willis called] Green Mile ... I found John Coffey."
-Frank Darabont

"There was obviously a concern, because nobody sets out to make a three-hour movie. Nobody particularly wants that."
-Frank Darabont

"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."
-Frank Darabont

"Steven Spielberg's a huge influence on a lot of people, and Schindler's List still looks like a great movie."
-Frank Darabont

"I should thank God or somebody for inventing Michael Clarke Duncan."
-Frank Darabont

"He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him."
-Frank Darabont

"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."
-Frank Darabont

"He's got such a spark of humanity, real humanism, in his work, even in the more obviously horror pieces, ... That's what I found most compelling about this story. It was a hell of an emotional journey."
-Frank Darabont