Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Richard Schickel
Born: February 10, 1933
Died: February 18, 2017 (aged 84)
Bio: Richard Warren Schickel was an American film historian, journalist, author, filmmaker, screenwriter, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time magazine from 1965 2010, and also wrote for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Known for:
- Clint Eastwood (1996)
- Clint: A Retrospective (2010)
- Conversations with Scorsese (2011)
- Intimate strangers (1985)