Richard Linklater famous quotes

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
-- Richard Linklater

#Lonely #Feelings #Next

When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.
-- Richard Linklater

#Years #Eight #Trying

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
-- Richard Linklater

#Thinking #Film #Filmmaker

Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...
-- Richard Linklater

#Couple #Letters #Monogamy

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
-- Richard Linklater

#Film #Paint #Filmmaker

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
-- Richard Linklater

#Artist #Mind #Criminals

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
-- Richard Linklater

#Animal #Nuts #Ideas

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
-- Richard Linklater

#Memories #Past #Wonderful

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

#Ambition #Everyday #Finding Yourself

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
-- Richard Linklater

#Thinking #Lucky #Film

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

#Guy #Toes #Hollywood

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
-- Richard Linklater

#Way #Hollywood #World

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
-- Richard Linklater

#Age #Being Lied #Lied

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.
-- Richard Linklater

#Ideas #Departure #Arriving

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
-- Richard Linklater

#Couple #Oil #Years

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
-- Richard Linklater

#Art #Entertainment #Film

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
-- Richard Linklater

#Thinking #Film #Trouble

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
-- Richard Linklater

#Work Out #Luck #Things Work Out

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

#Intelligent #Interesting #People

I want to make a film about a factory worker.
-- Richard Linklater

#Want #Film #Factory Workers

The truth will only be told over a career.
-- Richard Linklater

#Careers

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.
-- Richard Linklater

#Responsibility #People #Would Be

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.
-- Richard Linklater

#Boys #Thinking #Years

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
-- Richard Linklater

#People #Giving #Consistency

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

#Boys #May #Film

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
-- Richard Linklater

#Texas #Years #People

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

#Congratulations #School #Rocks

It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.
-- Richard Linklater

#Ideas #Two #People

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.
-- Richard Linklater

#Memories #Thinking #Yeah

To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
-- Richard Linklater

#Passion #Self #Profound

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

#Asking #Care #Subway

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
-- Richard Linklater

#Interesting #Gone #Able

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
-- Richard Linklater

#Dream #Waking #Infinite

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
-- Richard Linklater

#Korea #Sunrise #Individualism

I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.
-- Richard Linklater

#Believe #Space #Understanding

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.
-- Richard Linklater

#Writing #Use #Clay

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
-- Richard Linklater

#Eye #World #Rich

I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.
-- Richard Linklater

#Life #Thinking #Essence

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
-- Richard Linklater

#Size #Stories #Want

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
-- Richard Linklater

#Nuts #Way #Cracks