Richard Linklater Quotes

• The truth will only be told over a career.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Career

• I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn’t know would never get financing.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lost, Trying, Film

• I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trouble, Films

• Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Whatever, Tell

• I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

  Richard Linklater

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  Tags in Made, Films, Less

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guy, Hollywood

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Pack

• It’s luck that one thing works out and one doesn’t, it’s sort of happenstance.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Luck

  Tags in Sort, Works

• Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Films, Paint

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Keep, Fact

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

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Able, Show, Used

• Hollywood has a way of sucking the world’s talent to it.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talent, Hollywood, Sucks

• I want to make a film about a factory worker.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, Worker, Factory

• I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worked, Couple, Oil

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Live, Doing

• It’s disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it’s not an art form.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Become, Films

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in May, Did, Whole

• Something about Texas I’m not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alone, Proud, Last

• I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn’t have been seen.

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, Worker, Factory

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

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sunrise, Made

Richard Linklater (25)

Birth:	30th July, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Richard Stuart Linklater is an American film director and screenwriter. Linklater was born in Houston, Texas. He studied at Sam Houston State University and left midway through his stint in college to work on an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. While working on the rig he read a lot of literature, but on land he developed a love of film through repeated visits to a repertory theater in Houston.

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