Top 62 Richard Linklater Quotes
#1. I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
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#2. I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
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#3. You are both stars, don't forget.
When the stars exploded billions of
years ago, they formed everything
that is this world. The moon, the
trees, everything we know is
stardust. So don't forget. You
are stardust.
- ROSE PEDDLER
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#4. 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 stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
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#5. 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.
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#6. There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
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#7. It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done.
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#8. I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
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#9. You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.
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#10. At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.
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#11. Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
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#12. No one really
knows anyone. That's the thing
about relationships - people are
always saying, "I want to know you,
I want to know who you are." But
it is so hard for anyone to even
know themselves. Who I am is
always changing, so how can anyone
else share in that?
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#13. It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
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#14. I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
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#17. I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. No one believes this, but it's the same. I'm the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.
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#18. 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.
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#19. The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
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#20. I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.
- Celine
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#21. In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.
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#22. I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
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#23. Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
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#24. When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.
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#25. The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.
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#26. Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.
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#27. I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
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#28. We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
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#30. Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
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#33. I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
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#34. The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
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#35. I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
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#37. I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.
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#38. 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.
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#39. It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
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#40. Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
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#41. People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
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#42. ... [Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.
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#43. If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.
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#44. 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 from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.
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#45. I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
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#46. It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book?
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#47. I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
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#48. Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
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#49. I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.
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#51. Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
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#52. As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.
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#53. That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about ... If things line up, that's pretty rare.
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#54. Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
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#55. See. The whole concept of love is
much more complex. Love's like God
or something: It's everywhere ... I
see it, I feel it, but I don't know
if another person is going to hand
it to me.
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#56. The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.
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#57. As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
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#58. It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.
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#60. Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely. - Celine
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#61. 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.
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#62. It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
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