Richard King Quotes (47 Quotes)

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

They ask all kinds of questions. They ask about the Army, the weather and some about school.

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

I think that the filmmakers entering the field today are from the first generation to openly challenge the legitimacy of religion.

I did not go to film school.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

I started messing around with the family 8mm camera or a borrowed VHS camera so I could make my own bloody special effects scenes.

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

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

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

I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.

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

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.

However, I have only made horrorthriller feature length movies.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

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

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.

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

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

Right now, everything else in my life revolves around my need to keep making movies.

I've disposed of many abandoned animals in the same humane way. The cats caused damage to my wife's flowers, and I don't like them digging in my garden and leaving their droppings.

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

Yet the audience who will see the finished movie will have no concept of, or appreciation for, the movie maker's struggles.

This is a good opportunity for us to help out our country,

Annie Malone is an extremely important part of the fabric of this community, ... Think about the lives that the people who have worked here have touched.

I have passed up job offers and advances in the video industry to stay at a point where I can keep making feature length movie projects.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

As a kid I became interested in special effects for sci-fi and horror movies.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

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

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?

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

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

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

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

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

A settling in time, ... When you move into a new house, you have to take some time to settle in.

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

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