Richard King Quotations

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

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

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

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

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

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

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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 aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

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