66+ Richard Linklater Quotes On Slacker, Boyhood And Inventive

Richard Linklater is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his films such as Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, and Boyhood. He is also the founder of the Austin Film Society, which supports and promotes independent films. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Richard Linklater on love, life, slacker.

Top 10 Richard Linklater Quotes

1. Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
2. I want to make a film about a factory worker.
3. Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
4. It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
5. I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
6. Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
7. 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.
8. I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
9. The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.
10. Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Richard Linklater Short Quotes

• In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.
• I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
• I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
• The truth will only be told over a career.
• If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.
• Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...
• If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?
• The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
• Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
• Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

Richard Linklater Quotes About Life

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

…[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. — 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

Richard Linklater Quotes About Films

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. — Richard Linklater

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. — 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

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen. — 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'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously. — Richard Linklater

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. — 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

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

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors. — Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater Quotes About Film

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

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

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

Richard Linklater Quotes About People

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

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

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

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people. — 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

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. — Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 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

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

If the animators could hide something so secretly that I could watch it numerous times, both on the computer and on the screen, and not pick up on it, then it deserves to be in the movie. But if they had more overt things, I'd often tell them to cut it out. In general, as long as they captured the spirit of the character, then they're fine. But sometimes it took a while, and we had to replace a lot of animators. — 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

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

I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about timing. There's a moment when you're hot and studios will make your next film, and then there's a moment when you're really cold, and they couldn't care less what you want to do next. That's when you have to recede and make lower-budgeted films. — Richard Linklater

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. — Richard Linklater

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul. — 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

It has to be very tight to seem loose. — Richard Linklater

My sisters would swear that I was the spoiled kid who got everything he wanted, and I would go "No way! I worked my ass off and you guys got everything." We're all kind of in our own narratives. — Richard Linklater

I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film." But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new. — Richard Linklater

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich. — 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

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that. — Richard Linklater

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

Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with. — Richard Linklater

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. — Richard Linklater

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

All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in." — Richard Linklater

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. — Richard Linklater

Life Lessons by Richard Linklater

1. Richard Linklater's work emphasizes the importance of taking time to appreciate the small moments in life.
2. His films often explore the complexity of relationships and the power of human connection.
3. Through his work, Linklater encourages viewers to reflect on their own experiences and find meaning in the everyday.