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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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Richard Linklater
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 30
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Richard Stuart Linklater
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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 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.
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Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
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I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
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