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Richard Linklater
American
Director
About the author
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Want
#Right
I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Artists
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
Director
#Hollywood
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Art
#Entertainment
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Luck
No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#People
#State
The truth will only be told over a career.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Will
#Career
#Truth
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Film
#Hollywood
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
Director
#Politics
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#People
#Faith
#Fact
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Hollywood
#World
#Talent
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Years
#Oil
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Italy
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#World
#Eyes
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Being
#Age
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Film
#May
#Boys
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
Director
#People
#Success
#School
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Trying
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Film
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Being
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Trouble
I want to make a film about a factory worker.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director
#Want
#Film
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater,
American
Director