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Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater
American Director
Born: Jul 30, 1960
Film Me People Time World You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life. Richard Linklater
Life You People Rest College First Live Those Still Friends Often Roommates Your
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
Cares Easier No One Cares No-One Because Get Happened Subway Asking Homeless
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic. Richard Linklater
You Experience Emotions World Feeling Become Older Poetic Beautifully Get Any Just Want Ordinary Ordinary Things Less Barriers Things
I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making movies, to the Film Society, to just being in a film world. It's a life that I wanted to inhabit. I think everyone has the opportunity to do that in this world - it's just, are you gonna work for it, and how much does it mean to you? Richard Linklater
Life Work Time You World Opportunity Long Long Time Living Think Society Everyone Visualized Long Time Ago Look Does How Making How Much Making Movies Go Up Just Being Wanted Movies Mean Gonna Much Inhabit Film Film World
I really do remember everything. I see people I haven't seen in 20 years, and I can talk with them about what we talked about outside the high school. Richard Linklater
People Remember School Seen Everything High See High School About Outside Talk Talked Years Them Really
As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion. Richard Linklater
You Parents Kid Go Dominion Where Little Agency Little Kid Your Drag
I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates. Richard Linklater
Crazy Prison Bad Main Town Conditions Up Often Grew Which
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. Richard Linklater
Comedy Big Distinction Smaller Between Make Around Jump Get Them Then Lucky Even Film
No one believes this, but when I'm working, it's the same, whether I'm working on 'Bad News Bears,' 'Before Sunset,' 'A Scanner Darkly,' or 'Fast Food Nation.' I'm the same person, trying to make it work. Richard Linklater
Work Food News Sunset Nation Before Bad Bad News Bears No-One Make Person Trying Same Whether Working Fast Believes Fast Food
I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character to the next to the next and never return. Richard Linklater
Character You People Radical Think Could Never Know Return Narrative How Go Forget Story Next
I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been the coach cursing at the kids. Richard Linklater
Cursing School Gone Universe Kids High Parallel Some High School Had Been May Coach Baseball Played Filmmaking
Artists are great. They jump in. Richard Linklater
Great Jump Artists
My working method has always been, 'Work really hard and get it right the first time.' Richard Linklater
Work Time First First Time Always Method Been Get Really Working Hard Right
When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite. Richard Linklater
You Big Something Tendency Had Go Opposite Get Impulse Serious Film
The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines. Richard Linklater
Our Our Lives Machines Structure Through Like Go Psyche Human Oh Moved Then Creates Human Psyche Lives Here
I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment. Richard Linklater
World Believe Else Guess Someone General Never Grandiose View Moment
I want cinema to be a part of my life. It's natural for me. Richard Linklater
Life Me Natural Cinema My Life Part Want
You learn from everybody. Richard Linklater
You Everybody Learn
I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character. Richard Linklater
Character Kid Cartoon Cartoon Character Disappointed Bugs Up Very Bunny Wanted Realized Who Grow Grow Up
I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective. Richard Linklater
Environmental Health Food Me Rights Animal Perspective Our Animal Rights Industrialization Always Issue Been Human Interested Human Health
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. Richard Linklater
Sunrise Made Before Well Korea Italy Very Did Much Internationally Here
Every day's a hustle. Richard Linklater
Day Every Hustle
For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we've been lied to all our lives. You start educating yourself. You become motivated; you follow your muse where it takes you. And you see the world in a different way. You start making decisions based on what you feel is right. Richard Linklater
You Yourself World Become Awareness Our Way Our Lives All Our Lives Lied Follow See Takes Merely Feel Making Making Decisions Educating Motivated Been Lot Where Different Which Decisions Us Realizing Your Different Way Based Lives Right Start Extent Muse
I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images. Richard Linklater
Time Me Class Girl Year Think Playwriting Took Seeing Dating Terms Around Making Were Short-Lived Movies Who Fun Actress Images
Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either in the unknown future that you're working toward, or you're in the past that becomes a little abstract. Richard Linklater
Future Time You Past Everybody Unknown Abstract Toward Becomes Passing Just The Hardest Thing Wants In The Past Either Little Working Moment Hardest Hardest Thing Thing Appreciate
Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere. Richard Linklater
Time Me Long Long Time Took Nobody Know Nowhere
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