Richard Linklater Quotes

"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Artists)

"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
(Related: Hollywood)

"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Art, Entertainment)

"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Luck)

"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

"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: People, State)

"The truth will only be told over a career."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Truth, Career, Will)

"The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone."
- Richard Linklater

"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Film, Hollywood)

"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
(Related: Politics)

"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
(Related: Faith, People, Fact)

"Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Talent, Hollywood, World)

"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Oil, Years)

"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Italy)

"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Eyes, World)

"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Age, Being)

"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
(Related: Boys, Film, May)

"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
(Related: Success, People, School)

"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Trying)

"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Film)

"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Being)

"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Trouble)

"I want to make a film about a factory worker."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Film, Want)

"Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint."
- Richard Linklater