The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“JESSE I have a time machine up in my room. I've come to save you just like I said I would. CELINE… — 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
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are,… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“I'm living in this world. I'm what, a slacker? A "twentysomething"? I'm in the margins. I'm not building a wall but making… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making movies, to the Film… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Pro athletes, how they go through the world is so elevated. The bubble they're in is one of entitlement. And that starts… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down… — 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