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Richard King
Director
About the author
We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.
Richard King,
Director
#End
The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.
Richard King,
Director
#Horror
I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.
Richard King,
Director
#Music
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.
Richard King,
Director
#Woman
#Act
#Movies
#Violence
#Cinema
#Inspiration
In this way, some film schools can be destructive.
Richard King,
Director
#Film
#Schools
Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.
Richard King,
Director
#Bible
#Religious
#Mythology
More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.
Richard King,
Director
#People
#Art
#Movies
Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.
Richard King,
Director
#Knowledge
Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.
Richard King,
Director
#Present
#Opportunity
#Reality
This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.
Richard King,
Director
#Interest
#Horror
Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.
Richard King,
Director
#Want
#Money
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
Richard King,
Director
#Christianity
#American
#Government
#Mythology
I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
Richard King,
Director
#Movies
We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.
Richard King,
Director
#Want
#Opportunity
When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.
Richard King,
Director
#Sacrifice
#Will
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
Richard King,
Director
#Art
#Movies
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.
Richard King,
Director
#Mistakes
#Project
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
Richard King,
Director
#Information
#Movies
#Television
#Makeup
#Behavior
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.
Richard King,
Director
#Film
#Will
#Movies
#School
#Care
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.
Richard King,
Director
#Will
#Challenge
#Fact
Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.
Richard King,
Director
#Words
#Ideas
#Wrong
#Censorship
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?
Richard King,
Director
#Years
#World
#Past
#Violence
#Women
#Cinema
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
Richard King,
Director
#Criticism
#Learning
#Babies
Each feature I make is my focus at that time.
Richard King,
Director
#Time
#Focus
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
Richard King,
Director
#May
#Ideas
#Opinion
#Censorship
I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.
Richard King,
Director
#Living
#Movies
I did not go to film school.
Richard King,
Director
#Film
#School
I have done some short pieces that are not horror.
Richard King,
Director
#Horror
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
Richard King,
Director
#Society
#Violence
#Women
#Connection
I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.
Richard King,
Director
#Fact
#Horror
I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.
Richard King,
Director
#Want
I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.
Richard King,
Director
#Work
#Years
#Pretty
#Act
#Months
#Entertainment
I position everything else in my life around making movies.
Richard King,
Director
#Life
#Movies
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.
Richard King,
Director
#Work
#Production
#Temptations
#Exhaustion