Richard Linklater Quotes
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Maybe part of being a dad means that the slightest little thing will make me tear up.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.
Richard Linklater
American film director
A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.
Richard Linklater
American film director
We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Every film's different; every story is so different. But I think I've always been attracted to try to take something minimal and to maximize it cinematically. To find out if I can I really go all the way with one idea.
Richard Linklater
American film director
I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment.
Richard Linklater
American film director
You don't really grow up until you quit playing sports.
Richard Linklater
American film director
I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater
American film director
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
Richard Linklater
American film director
I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
Richard Linklater
American film director
I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been the coach cursing at the kids.
Richard Linklater
American film director
When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.
Richard Linklater
American film director
Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are slightly smaller projects. Some could be sketches. They're not all oil paintings.
Richard Linklater
American film director
One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.
Richard Linklater
American film director
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