Richard Linklater quotes

Richard Linklater is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his innovative storytelling techniques. His works often explore themes of time, memory, and the human experience, with films such as "Dazed and Confused", "Boyhood", and the "Before" trilogy receiving critical acclaim. He is recognized as one of the most influential independent filmmakers of his generation. Here are 25 of his quotes:

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

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

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

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

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

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

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

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

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

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

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

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

Richard Linklater

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

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

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

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

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

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

Richard Linklater