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Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices, ... One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful.

Richard Schickel

 

Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices. One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful.

Richard Schickel

 

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

Richard Schickel

 American Author

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

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 American Author Consequences

Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as one character puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments."

Richard Schickel

 Children

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

Richard Schickel

 American Author Journalism

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

Richard Schickel

 American Author Soul

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

Richard Schickel

 American Author Commitment

Elia Kazan: A Biography

Richard Schickel

 Biography

You feel like it's not just a guy up there reading copy that people prepared for him to read. That's a good quality and increasingly rare in the television climate of our times. He's something a lot more than just a talking head.

Richard Schickel

 People