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Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

Richard Linklater

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Richard Linklater
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 30
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Houston
Texas
Richard Stuart Linklater
Memory
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Deals
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Wonderful
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
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There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
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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.
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Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...
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Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
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In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.
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We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
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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.
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Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
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There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
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If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?
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The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
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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.
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It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
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Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.
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I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
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People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
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As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.
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I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
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I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
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