Richard Schickel Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Richard Schickel:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-schickel-quotes/#660dc2e8

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-schickel-quotes/#301eeefd

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-schickel-quotes/#20f82d19

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-schickel-quotes/#8970efd3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-schickel-quotes/#5c3a3332

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-schickel-quotes/#a7eb8d69

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
~Richard Schickel


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-schickel-quotes/#8de74104

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