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
character fate exercise
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.
memories soul journalism
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
lying exercise media
The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.
commitment glowing males
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
humor doe like-you
He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
age males these-days
There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.
movie art stars
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
luck favors
Luck always favors the comely.
taken reality sitting
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.
children character wife
Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.
law years perspective
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
climate copy good guy people prepared quality rare reading talking television
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.