Richard Schickel Quotes

You feel like it's not just a guy up there reading copy that people prepared for him to read. That's a good quality and increasingly rare in the television climate of our times. He's something a lot more than just a talking head. - Richard Schickel

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. - Richard Schickel

There must be other figures who have broadened out in other fields, but not with her energy and focus. Working that hard maybe does something good for you. - Richard Schickel

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. - Richard Schickel

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. - Richard Schickel

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul. - Richard Schickel

Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices... One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful. - Richard Schickel

His work was generally superb. - Richard Schickel

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. - Richard Schickel

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