Mark Frost Quotations

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.

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.

He had farther to come than Francis did, ... I found more to admire in Vardon than almost any sports figure I can think of. He is an inspirational figure.

I think it's the greatest underdog story in the history of American sports.

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.

FF ... He says he is currently in negotiations to pen 'Fantastic Four 2' and would love to come back again. He knows in which direction he wants the characters to head and plans to have all the Fantastic Four come back.

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

We felt this was a story with dual protagonists,

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.

If you get to the point where you're just vamping just to withhold the trump card about the central mystery,

If you get to the point where you're just vamping,

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called … YouTwit-face.

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

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

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.

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.

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish