Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel
Richard Warren Schickelis an American film historian, journalist, author, filmmaker, screenwriter, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time magazine from 1965-2010, and has also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He currently reviews films for Truthdig...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 February 1933
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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.
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The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
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Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
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He who does not like you will defame you in jest.