190 Quotes by Richard Linklater

I guess I was just always one of those guys who asked those fundamental questions: 'Who am I? What's this for? Why? What does this mean? Is this real?' All these pretty basic questions. I like making movies about people who are self-conscious in that way, and are trying to feel their way through the world.

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

'The Newton Boys' was the one time I've made a film with really active characters who weren't at all self-reflexive and just plowed through their lives. There's a part of everyone that's like that. We have a biological imperative to keep living, keep moving forward... We have no choice.

I try to avoid bad experiences.

I loved 'Goodbye to Language.'

A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She's a fascinating artist in that world.

To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.