The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I remember playing for coaches who seemed like military-type guys. It always rubbed me the wrong way. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story. — 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
Every college player thinks they're on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving… — 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
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