Richard Price Quotations

I have expressed my regrets to the City. We made some mistakes out here and had some erosion problems.

For years people have been telling me how great it was. But nobody could figure out how to make money with this story. Finally, Joe Roth, who founded his own movie studio, announced he wanted to direct it. If not for him it would still be sitting there.

I don't think you're going to see any significant difference in application of (MSHA) rules to the operators.

There are short-term costs related to rescue efforts but it will probably have more of a psychological than a financial effect.

Joe Roth found out it was available, he wanted to direct it, he had the means, he had the studio. He said, 'I want to do it and it's done.' I think if it wasn't for him, it would probably still be sitting somewhere.

I was totally convinced it was beyond me. The show was so complicated, I couldn't even follow the commercials.

The opportunity to invest globally both in private and public markets has grown substantially. By expanding their horizons outside of the U.S., institutions are finding better opportunities and diversification.

Very nice results. Pricing was a significant factor and they had no extraneous events in the quarter.

At some point I started wondering what it means to teach for free in an inner-city school - what's in it for me?

There's a dangerous thrill - a rush - in goodness. If you don't keep your wits about you, if you don't have a very sober take on what you're doing and who you're doing it too, you can inadvertently set little fires. The very people you are helping can wind up, emotionally, in worse shape than they were before.

It would make me so happy if I didn't have to write the scripts of my own books.

I've worked in the sustainable design field for 10 years. And I wanted to finally practice what I preach. This kind of development is not only marketable, it's a feasible way to promote sustainable design.

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Coal prices will hold for 2006 and perhaps into 2007 due to the shortfall of supply. It takes a while to ramp up capacity of coal and there are only so many ships to ship it in and rail cars to move it in,

You wake up one morning and a lane has fallen in. They've got to keep that road from falling in.

This book falls under the category of "stuff I know," as opposed to "stuff I need to learn".

They're coming in on chapter 48 of a 200-chapter Russian novel. I mean, things happen in year one, episode three that do not play out until year two, episode three, and you just have to be there for the whole time.

There's a lot of people here, and they're here to see you, not us. Do what you do.

It makes a lot of sense. Your teeth are always with you. ... You can always update your car or a computer, but you just can't update teeth.

You took a terrible risk by driving without proper supervision, as a result of which a young child lost his life and his father was seriously injured.

It will last you a heck of a lot longer than that car will. And it won't depreciate like the car.

They were not so egregious that they had to shut down the mine. Historically, coal-mining was much more risky.

I never did any TV before. But this was the most honorable and worthwhile show I could be involved with.

If you really want to say something in a film, don't make a big studio movie. The more money that's invested, the more people will want to have their say. Expensive films can't afford to alienate part of the audience. So it's up to smaller-scale films.

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're not; either they can write or they can't.

All I really want is one outside opinion. They say, "He who has two watches never knows what time it is" - you have to pick one person and decide to trust them.

The character Jack Nicholson played was a physical giant, and then here's little beady-eyed Jack Nicholson and everybody was aghast at this casting gaffe.

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements.

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.

Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.

In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies

As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

Beat him, eat him and get out.

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.