190 Quotes by Richard Linklater

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

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.

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.

When you’re trying to get laid, everything’s great, but once you’ve been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.

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.

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. No one believes this, but it’s the same. I’m the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

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.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people’s radar a little.

Something about Texas I’m not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.