There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — 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 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 maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with. — 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
There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game. — 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
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
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
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
I have a lot of women friends - I feel like I finally matured a little. But initially I was attracted to… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. — 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
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
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
People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films. — 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