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25 quotes by Richard Linklater

Richard Stuart Linklater (born July 30, 1960) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for the coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), the romantic drama film trilogy Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013); the rotoscope animated drama film Waking Life (2001), the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003), the rotoscope animated science fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly (2006), and the...
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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... →

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

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

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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... →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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