25 Mark Frost Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mark Frost

American Novelist

Born: Nov 25, 1953

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Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again. Mark Frost

You School Childish Idea Feel Like Talking Hall Again Whole

Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image. Mark Frost

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'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself. Mark Frost

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The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. Mark Frost

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones. Mark Frost

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In the fun house of today's metastisizing sports-entertainment megaplex, when every day brings another story revealing how these 'heroes' we create are fashioned from base clay, a pause might be in order to reflect on athletes who actually embodied the qualities we think we admire in the too-easily deified. Mark Frost

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I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently. Mark Frost

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I'm a realist about how the networks work. Mark Frost

Work About Networks How Realist

'Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn't what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions. Mark Frost

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I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently. Mark Frost

Easy answers are never really useful ones, so hopefully we're not trying to peddle easy answers. Mark Frost

Hopefully Easy Never Answers Trying Really Useful

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in. Mark Frost

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had. Mark Frost

Sports Arguably Had Greatest Wooden Coach Ever

I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life. Mark Frost

Life Know Got His End Wooden Coach

I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story. Mark Frost

You Definition Someone Stuck Like Getting Story

We've learned never to say never. Anything is a possibility. Mark Frost

Say Possibility Never Learned Anything

I don't normally associate bingeing of any kind with healthy results in life. And I'm not a binge-watcher by nature myself. Mark Frost

Life Myself Nature Healthy Kind Results Normally Any Associate

I like to take my time with things. Mark Frost

Time My Time Take Like Things

A lot of people always look back at 'Twin Peaks' and say that was the start of this explosion we've had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks. Mark Frost

I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me. Mark Frost

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My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency! Mark Frost

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I think you can safely say that the mystery in 'Twin Peaks' as we started to explore more is very large, there are many aspects to it and the hope is that people will find things that they are interested in in all sorts of things related to the larger mystery. Mark Frost

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