Hitfix Interviews Frank Daradont

San Diego Comic-Con started earlier today, and The Walking Dead’s presence there is pretty big, as promised by Frank Darabont himself. With The Walking Dead coming up tomorrow as one of the first panels, and probably the biggest of the entire day, Hitfix.com decided to get a nice interview in with Frank Darabont which you can read a snippet of below!

Q: Basic cable has fewer content restrictions than broadcast, but there are still some. What have you run into in terms of the gore?

A: None. Surprisingly, none. We’re not finding that we’re having to pull our punches in what we’re shooting, which is a tremendous pleasure.

Our biggest drawback is that we can’t say “fuck.” I’m allowed other swear words. There’s a limit to how many, but you know what? It’s an interesting discipline. It’s like defaulting to a certain pair of cargo pants every day when you get dressed; you wind up relying too much on that kind of language as a writer. When you’re forced to be very choosy, it’s actually a fantastic exercise. It’s a great discipline. I’m finding I’m coming in under the word count of what I’m allowed. It’s forcing me to write more artfully. And it’s kind of cool that way. It’s not just the default mechanism of saying “shit” in every sentence. I can say it four times if I want to, and that winds up being interesting.

I’m a writer. That’s what I do. I sit down to write every day, even when I’m not writing to publish or sell. I have to. And I’ve always said that there’s so much writing out there that’s sloppy, so if I ever taught a writing class, I would take people’s adjectives and adverbs away, and say, “Learn to write without these components, and then we’ll seed those components in properly. But first let me tie one hand behind your back.” Because there’s so much over-reliance on the seasoning that you don’t know how to cook the dish first. You get adverb-happy. And it’s hard to read after a while. Same thing with profanity. Be selective. It means more.

You can read the entire interview over at Hitfix.

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