Richard Linklater Thinking Quotations

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.

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

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.