Richard Schickel

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

— Richard Schickel

Luck always favors the comely.

— Richard Schickel

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it…

— Richard Schickel

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

— Richard Schickel

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these…

— Richard Schickel

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

— Richard Schickel

Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward…

— Richard Schickel

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would…

— Richard Schickel

Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation…

— Richard Schickel

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate…

— Richard Schickel

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

— Richard Schickel

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

— Richard Schickel

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

— Richard Schickel