Richard Linklater Quotes

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it. ~ Richard Linklater

Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters ... ~ Richard Linklater

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen. ~ Richard Linklater

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. ~ Richard Linklater

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving. ~ Richard Linklater

My process differs ... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day. ~ Ethan Hawke

I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish. ~ Robert Downey, Jr.

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 ~ Richard Linklater

I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt. ~ Richard Linklater

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

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. ~ Richard Linklater

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly. ~ Richard Linklater

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone. ~ Richard Linklater

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. ~ Richard Linklater

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

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul. ~ Richard Linklater

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. ~ Richard Linklater

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. ~ Richard Linklater

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films. ~ Richard Linklater

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

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. ~ Richard Linklater

Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely. - Celine ~ Richard Linklater

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. ~ Richard Linklater

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. ~ Richard Linklater

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

JESSE
I have a time machine up in my room.
I've come to save you just like I
said I would.
CELINE
Save me from what?
JESSE
Save you from being blinded by all
the little bullshit of life. ~ Richard Linklater

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it. ~ Richard Linklater

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

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. ~ Richard Linklater

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. ~ Richard Linklater

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

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

They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life? ~ Richard Linklater, Waking Life

I see the people that do the real work, and what in a way is really sad is that the people that are often the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better don't really have the ambition and ego to be a leader - they don't see any interest in the rewards, they don't care if their names ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they are truly in the moment. ~ Richard Linklater

Before Midnight is one of the years best movies. Full to the brim with humor, heartbreak, and ravishing romance. Richard Linklater directs with ardor and artistry. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy shine brilliantly. Heads up, Oscar. This ones a keeper. ~ Peter Travers

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

I want to make a film about a factory worker. ~ Richard Linklater

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? ~ Richard Linklater

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. ~ Richard Linklater

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. ~ Richard Linklater

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. ~ Richard Linklater

You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is. ~ Richard Linklater

If you argue for your limitations they are yours ~ Richard Bach

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. ~ Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being. ~ Richard Price

I'm not really much of a video game player; my son would be the expert in that department. The only game I would really play is golf, the Tiger Woods video game. ~ Richard Roundtree

But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status. ~ Edward Jenks

Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent. ~ Richard Reeves

I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. It made me see my boss, Mr. Gerald, and identify him as an American type. I would smile when I saw him lugging his golf bags into the office. I had always felt a vast distance separating me from the boss, and now I felt closer to him, though still distant. I felt now that I knew him, that I could feel the very limits of his narrow life. And this had happened because I had read a novel about a mythical man called George F. Babbitt. ~ Richard Wright

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables. ~ Richard Whately

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on. ~ Richard MacDonald

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. ~ Richard Whately

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. ~ Richard Hanna

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly. ~ Richard Siken

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that. ~ Richard Farnsworth

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity. ~ Richard Kadrey

We laugh & it pits the world against us. ~ Richard Siken

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics. ~ Richard Dawkins

If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Blood is thicker than water, as they say, and money is thicker than blood. Interpret that however you like. ~ Richard L. Sanders

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal. ~ Tony McCoy

In the ensuing chapters, we will look in some detail at particular manifestations of the modern scientific ideology and the false paths down which it has led us. We will consider how biological determinism has been used to explain and justify inequalities within and between societies and to claim that those inequalities can never be changed. We will see how a theory of human nature has been developed using Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to claim that social organization is also unchangeable because it is natural. We will see how problems of health and disease have been located within the individual so that the individual becomes a problem for society to cope with rather than society becoming a problem for the individual. And we will see how simple economic relationships masquerading as facts of nature can drive the entire direction of biological research and technology. ~ Richard C. Lewontin

Simplicity is freedom. ~ Richard J. Foster

If someone throws you the ball, you don't have to catch it. ~ Richard Carlson

The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day.
[Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.] ~ Richard Rhodes

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not. ~ Richard J. Roberts

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends. ~ Richard Carlson

Great Modesty often hides great Merit. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Everybody is given a Dream ... you may have to work for it however ... ~ Richard Bach

Without love, what was the world? ~ Richard Flanagan

It's all generated, maybe, by the fact that the attitude of the populace is to try to find the answer instead of trying to find a man who has a way of getting at the answer. ~ Richard Feynman

To say that something happened supernaturally is not just to say 'We don't understand it' but to say 'We will never understand it, so don't even try. ~ Richard Dawkins

I've heard that said about outlanders and enemies before, and I don't generally trust it. Just too bloody convenient, the quick and easy way to deal with difference. Oh, they're not like us, they're insane. It saves you having to think too much. ~ Richard K. Morgan

To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism. ~ Richard Branson

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man. ~ Richard Wagner