Cinema Quotes by Richard Linklater

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

— Richard Linklater

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

— Richard Linklater

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

— Richard Linklater

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

— Richard Linklater

I always say I'll never make a film in Austin in summer, but I always end up here.

— Richard Linklater

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

— Richard Linklater

I want cinema to be a part of my life. It's natural for me.

— Richard Linklater

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

— Richard Linklater

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

— Richard Linklater

The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature.…

— Richard Linklater

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

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

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

— Richard Linklater

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

— 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…

— Richard Linklater

When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an…

— 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…

— Richard Linklater

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

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

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

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

Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some…

— Richard Linklater

The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the…

— Richard Linklater

Definitely my generation and beyond grew up in theaters and when you make a film you think of the theatrical experience. You…

— Richard Linklater

Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just…

— Richard Linklater

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

Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in…

— Richard Linklater

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

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

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

— Richard Linklater

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

— Richard Linklater

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

— Richard Linklater

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los…

— Richard Linklater

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

Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are…

— Richard Linklater

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

— Richard Linklater