190 Quotes by Richard Linklater

It has to be very tight to seem loose.

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

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

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

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

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.

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

Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...