Mark Frost Quotes

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we’re nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

– Mark Frost

The fact that people still talk and obsess about ‘Twin Peaks’, more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

– Mark Frost

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

‘Twin Peaks’ is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.

– 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

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

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

– Mark Frost

I have traveled down this path before – ‘List of Seven’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ both have thematic similarities – but ‘Paladin’ took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell’s Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don’t forget your ball of twine.

– Mark Frost