I don't want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel.… — 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
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 didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I… — 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
My sisters would swear that I was the spoiled kid who got everything he wanted, and I would go "No way! I… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this… — 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 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
Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing… — 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
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — Richard Linklater Copy Share
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
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to. — Richard Linklater Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely. — Richard Linklater Copy Share
My dad's chill. He's the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, 'Well, nobody was hurt. It's just some metal.' — Richard Linklater Copy Share
