Tom Rickman quotes

Don't have too much story for the time you have.
-- Tom Rickman

#Stories #Too Much

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.
-- Tom Rickman

#Character #Drawing #Plot

Dialogue works the least well when it's telling you what's going on.
-- Tom Rickman

#Dialogue #Wells

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

I've seen too much in life to give up.