Richard Linklater

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

— Richard Linklater

I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character…

— Richard Linklater

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

— Richard Linklater

It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's…

— Richard Linklater

I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but I think it's going…

— Richard Linklater

Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just…

— Richard Linklater

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and…

— Richard Linklater

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

— Richard Linklater

I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind…

— Richard Linklater

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

— Richard Linklater

I admire people who can just brazenly go through the world.

— Richard Linklater

The '70s kind of sucked.

— Richard Linklater

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

— Richard Linklater

I want cinema to be a part of my life. It's natural for me.

— Richard Linklater

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

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

— Richard Linklater

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

— Richard Linklater

“Dream is destiny.”

— Richard Linklater

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off…

— Richard Linklater

I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for…

— Richard Linklater

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

— Richard Linklater

For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we've been lied to all our lives. You start…

— Richard Linklater

Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves;…

— Richard Linklater

I really do remember everything. I see people I haven't seen in 20 years, and I can talk with them about what…

— Richard Linklater

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

— Richard Linklater