Richard Linklater Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• …[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

  Richard Linklater

  Writing, Use, Clay

• As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

  Richard Linklater

  Teenager, Writing, College

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

• 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.

• 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. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.

  Richard Linklater

  Writing, Expectations, Criticism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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