Richard King Quotes & Sayings

#1. The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

#2. I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

#3. Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

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#4. I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

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#5. Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

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#6. Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

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#7. When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

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#8. Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

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#9. I did not go to film school.

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#10. I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

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#11. Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

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#12. And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

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#13. To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

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#14. Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

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#15. Never underestimate the power of stupid

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#16. Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.

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#17. I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

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#18. We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

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#19. I'm not impressed by someone's degree ... I'm impressed by them making movies.

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#20. Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

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#21. In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

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#22. I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

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#23. Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

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#24. This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

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#25. I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

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#26. Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

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#27. Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

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#28. If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

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#29. I position everything else in my life around making movies.

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#30. I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

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#31. The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision!

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