Daily Dialogue — July 4, 2010

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice: get busy living, or get busy dying.”

- Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), screenplay by Frank Darabont, based on a short story by Stephen King

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is favorite dialogue from favorite movies of GITS readers. The Shawshank Redemption suggested by Mike.

Trivia: Stephen King sold the rights to the movie very cheaply out of his friendship with Frank Darabont. They had originally become friends when Darabont adapted a short story of King’s called “The Woman in the Room” (King has a policy stating that any aspiring filmmaker can adapt his short stories for a buck) and King was thoroughly impressed. They maintained a pen pal relationship and didn’t actually meet until Darabont optioned Shawshank.