The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
About Richard Schickel
Richard Warren Schickelwas an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time from 1965-2010, and also wrote for Life and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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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.
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This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
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That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
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Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
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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.
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The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
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