Garrett Fort Quotes

Garrett Elsden Fort was an American short story writer, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter. He was also a close follower of Meher Baba.

Fort made his screenwriting debut with the silent film, One of the Finest . Early in his career, Fort co-wrote the Broadway play Jarnegan , based on the novel by Jim Tully. Fort's first talkie effort was the ground-breaking Rouben Mamoulian production Applause . In 2006 Applause was recognized as a culturally, historically and aesthetically significant film by the National Film Registry.Fort was adept at alternating horrific highlights with bits of unexpected humor. As a screenwriter he is best remembered for his work on the original screen adaptations of such horror / melodrama films as Dracula , Frankenstein , Dracula's Daughter , and The Mark of Zorro . Wikipedia

✵ 5. June 1900 – 26. October 1945

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Famous Garrett Fort Quotes

“Possibly there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your psychiatry, Mr. Garth.”

Dracula's Daughter, telling Garth that she believes Von Helsing's story of vampires Unbeknownst to Garth, the Countess is a vampire.
Dracula's Daughter (1936)

“You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.”

Prof. Von Helsing, defending himself against the charge of having murdered Count Dracula
Dracula's Daughter (1936)

“Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.”

Dracula, in his castle, when he hears wolves howling
Dracula (1931)

“To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious…. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.”

Dracula, talking to Lucy and Mina at the opera
Dracula (1931)

“She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.”

Prof. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)

“They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you.”

Watching the inhabitants of the house trying to ward off the vampire
Dracula (1931)

Garrett Fort Quotes

“For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.”

Dracula, to Van Helsing, who has discovered his secret
Dracula (1931)

“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if nobody tried to find out what lies beyond? You never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud, and what changes a darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things—what eternity is, for example—I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

Frankenstein, trying to explain to his fiancee why he experiments the way he does
Frankenstein (1931)

“The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, 'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.”

On the house Count Dracula has just leased
Dracula (1931)

“My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.”

Skeptical of Von Helsing's story of vampires
Dracula's Daughter (1936)

“You do not quite get what I mean. Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life. First to destroy it, then recreate it. There you have his mad dream.”

Explaining why Dr. Frankenstein left the University
Frankenstein (1931)

“I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to—Well, we warned you.”

Prologue; Edward Van Sloan actually comes out from behind an on-screen curtain to deliver this speech.
Frankenstein (1931)

“I am Dracula…. I bid you welcome.”

Dracula, welcoming Harker to his castle
Dracula (1931)

“I made him with these hands, and with these hands I'll destroy him.”

Frankenstein, when it becomes apparent that the monster has run amok
Frankenstein (1931)

“I never drink…wine.”

Dracula, to Harker, at his castle
Dracula (1931)

“You have created a monster and it will destroy you.”

Frankenstein, when it becomes apparent that the monster has run amok
Frankenstein (1931)

“Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?… Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?… There is such a one…. Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.”

Dracula's Daughter, trying to explain her situation to Dr. Garth
Dracula's Daughter (1936)

“Look, it's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive. It's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive!”

Dr. Frankenstein, when the monster first comes to life
Frankenstein (1931)

“Why, even when I was innocent her hatred of me hurt a good deal. Now that I'm guilty, her belief in me would hurt even more.”

The Devil-Doll, talking to Toto at the end of the movie (1936).

“The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.”

Dracula, speaking to Harker at his castle
Dracula (1931)

“The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.”

Dracula, trying to convince Mina's father and fiancee that vampires do exist
Dracula (1931)

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