190 Quotes by Richard Linklater

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

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.

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

Pro athletes, how they go through the world is so elevated. The bubble they're in is one of entitlement. And that starts young. By the time they're in college, they've had it a lot of their life.

The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that's outside the work itself.

Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.

It was always kind of sad when your favorite punk rockers, like Jello Biafra or someone, would say they hate something you like. It was, 'Oh, I thought we were on the same page.'