Richard Linklater Quotes
21 quotations by Richard Linklater
You're talking about the outsiders in society and how they deal with it and how they justify what they do. I can relate to that. |
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. |
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size. |
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone. |
So I was saving up my money and bought a Super 8 camera, projector, some editing equipment, a bunch of film stock, and moved to Austin. |
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. |
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. |
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. |
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. |
I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. |
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. |
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years. |
I want to make a film about a factory worker. |
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors. |
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen. |
I don't want to glorify robbing banks, but I come from a world that shares Willis's view, that banks and so on are the biggest crooks of them all. |
I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little. |
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles. |
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it. |
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. |
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich. |