Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot. — 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
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films. — 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
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've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt… — 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
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
Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves;… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I guess I was just always one of those guys who asked those fundamental questions: 'Who am I? What's this for? Why?… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'm so happy and relieved for the indie spirited film world because ... I don't even know if it's indie, it's just… — 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… — 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
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
I think casting is really important. Finding the right sensibility for the right part is an art in itself. If you're off… — 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
I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature.… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen. — 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
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 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
I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. — 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
