Richard Linklater Quotes

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• I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
• Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
• I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
• I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
• We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
• Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
• I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
• Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
• The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
• I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
• I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live,…
• Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
• I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
• I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
• Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
• I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come…
• Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
• It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
• I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
• It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

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