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  • I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.

    "Stephen King and Director Frank Darabont Talk The Mist". The Mist press conference, movieweb.com. November 13, 2007.