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Richard Linklater

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At some point youre no longer growing up youre aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.
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 not be accosted.
Richard Linklater
Filmmakers are going to make films just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater
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, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
Richard Linklater
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
Richard Linklater
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
Richard Linklater
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
Richard Linklater
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
Richard Linklater
I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
Richard Linklater
I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
Richard Linklater
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
Richard Linklater
I want to make a film about a factory worker.
Richard Linklater
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
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 than most.
Richard Linklater
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
Richard Linklater
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
Richard Linklater
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.
Richard Linklater
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
Richard Linklater
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
Richard Linklater
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
Richard Linklater
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
Richard Linklater
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
Richard Linklater
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
Richard Linklater
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
Richard Linklater
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
Richard Linklater
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
Richard Linklater
The truth will only be told over a career.
Richard Linklater
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater

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