Richard Linklater Quotes

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Richard Linklater

Profession : Director

Birth : July 30, 1960

'The Newton Boys' was the one time I've made a film with really active characters who weren't at all self-reflexive and just plowed through their lives. There's a part of everyone that's like that. We have a biological imperative to keep living, keep moving forward... We have no choice.

Richard Linklater

I loved 'Goodbye to Language.'

Richard Linklater

A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.

Richard Linklater

Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She's a fascinating artist in that world.

Richard Linklater

I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.

Richard Linklater

My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.

Richard Linklater

The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the academic culture has a lot, but there's no way to communicate it in a wide way.

Richard Linklater

The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It's diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.

Richard Linklater

'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

Richard Linklater

In interviews, I never wanted to play into the myth of, 'Yeah, I was sitting there doing nothing, and then made 'Slacker.'' No. I'd been making shorts, a Super-8 feature, and running a film society. I always try to stress to people that there's a lot of work involved and years of preparation. But no one wants to hear that part.

Richard Linklater

I don't want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening.

Richard Linklater

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.

Richard Linklater

Every day's a hustle.

Richard Linklater

I remember playing for coaches who seemed like military-type guys. It always rubbed me the wrong way.

Richard Linklater

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.

Richard Linklater

The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.

Richard Linklater

A certain kind of film is a big theatrical film and a certain kind of film isn't. It doesn't bother me so much that you can pick your format.

Richard Linklater

I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but I think it's going to be seen in someone's room at two in the morning.' It's that kind of movie. And I would have loved if it had been available on multiple formats at the moment it opened.

Richard Linklater

I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get money for that. I did a pilot about minimum wage workers for HBO that didn't get picked up; they thought it was depressing, even though it was a comedy.

Richard Linklater

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

Richard Linklater