Richard Price Quotes

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.

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 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.

Beat Him, Eat Him And Get Out.

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.

The Kind Of Event On A Conveyor Belt That Causes A Fire Occurs In A Variety Of Industrial Environments, Not Uniquely In Coal Environments.

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.

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.

You Can't Take A Character Anywhere They Don't Expect The Character To Go. But Within Those Confines Is Where Creativity Lies

The Bigger The Issue, The Smaller You Write.

I Have Offices All Over The Place And I Avoid Work Everywhere. I Don't Like To Write - I Like To Be Finished.