Richard King Quotes

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

The doer alone learneth.

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.

I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other creative projects.

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

Ahana does lots of things; that's the problem with her. She is a fashion designer and is also writing some scripts. She doesn't want to do the regular commercial films. So she has decided that only if she really likes something, then she will take it up.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

I want to understand everything so I can put myself in a position to be successful.

While I've got all my arms and legs and my eyes working at the same time, I've got to make as much stuff as I can.

We'd go to studios with ideas to do movie musicals and they'd literally kick us out. They said, 'Audiences aren't interested in movie musicals. You're wasting our time.'

Somehow, the process of making movies conventionally can dampen creativity because you've got to wait in line to do everything the way it's supposed to be, particularly with actors who are just hanging out waiting for the call.

I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.

I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.

If a person thinks that I can't add value or I'm not capable to be a part of their film, then I'm ready to work harder on myself.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.