Richard Schickel Quotes

• That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Common

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

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Art, Movies

  Tags in Own, Find

• A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Object, Artist

• A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exercises, Great, Character

• This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Perpetual

• Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Memory, Soul

  Tags in Journalism

• There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Age

Richard Schickel (8)

Birth:	10th February, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Filmmaker, Journalist, Critic

About

Richard Warren Schickel is an American author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. He is a film critic for Time magazine, having also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

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