Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
All I've learned is that you need the studio system sometimes, if your budget is a certain size, and other films you… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
A certain kind of film is a big theatrical film and a certain kind of film isn't. It doesn't bother me so… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Definitely my generation and beyond grew up in theaters and when you make a film you think of the theatrical experience. You… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review.… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I always say I'll never make a film in Austin in summer, but I always end up here. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Every film's different; every story is so different. But I think I've always been attracted to try to take something minimal and… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character to the… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's when we… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but I think it's going to be… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind of a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
