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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
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It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.
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I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
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Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.
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I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
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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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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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It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
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I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
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My sisters would swear that I was the spoiled kid who got everything he wanted, and I would go No way! I worked my ass off and you guys got everything. We're all kind of in our own narratives.
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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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Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
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Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...
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I want to make a film about a factory worker.
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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 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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Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
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People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
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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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We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
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There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
Richard Linklater