Richard Linklater Quotes

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• Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

  Richard Linklater

  Lonely, Feelings, Sitting

  Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.192, Vintage

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• 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

  Animal, Ideas, Nuts

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• 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.

  Richard Linklater

  Dream, Waking, Infinite

  "Fictional character: Guy Forsyth". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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

  Richard Linklater

  Ideas, Waking Life, Arriving

  "Fictional character: Boat Car Guy". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

  Richard Linklater

  Memories, Past, Wonderful

  Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.162, Vintage

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• Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

  Richard Linklater

  Responsibility, People, Social Hierarchy

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• 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

  Life, Thinking, Essence

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• 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

  Believe, Space, Magic In The World

  "Before Sunrise". www.imdb.com. January 24, 1995.

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• The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

  Richard Linklater

  Children, Generations, Definitions

  "How Richard Linklater Turned a 'Crazy, Wildly Impractical Idea' Into an Oscar Front-Runner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 27, 2014.

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• In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

  Richard Linklater

  Sea, Stories, Way

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• 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

  Soul, Vision, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

  Richard Linklater

  Memories, Thinking, Yeah

  Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.162, Vintage

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• Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.

  Richard Linklater

  Long, Trying, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Philosophy, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Odds, Government, Ego

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• 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

  Ideas, Guy, Avant Garde

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

  Richard Linklater

  Confused, Thinking, Quitting

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• 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

  Writing, Criticism, Film

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?

  Richard Linklater

  Meaningful, Enjoy, Dies

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• All I've learned is that you need the studio system sometimes, if your budget is a certain size, and other films you can do independently. When I think of a studio, I generally think of distribution. Since I'm a director, I have a similar creative experience on every film I do, because I can control that. But then it's a different film, I think, as it reaches the public, depending on the way it's marketed. I don't know. I haven't learned much of anything. Sometimes you need them, sometimes you don't. Sometimes they want you, most of the time they don't.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Creative, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

  Richard Linklater

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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

  Richard Linklater

  Film, Paint, Filmmaker

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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

  Richard Linklater

  Artist, Mind, Criminals

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• I have a lot of women friends - I feel like I finally matured a little. But initially I was attracted to some of them. I liked everything they were about. I think men are just taught: "Okay, well then, I should try to have sex with them." I'm just lucky that it went in the friendship direction, and it became a much stronger bond that's lasted a long time. You wonder how many potentially great friends you lose along the way because you become lovers and it is so painful when it's over and you can't turn it into a positive friendship.

  Richard Linklater

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Love You, Feel Good

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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