Richard King Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I did not go to film school.

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

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!

Never underestimate the power of stupid

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

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.