Quotes from Richard King

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

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

I position everything else in my life around making 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.

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

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

Never underestimate the power of stupid

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!

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

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

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