Quotes by Richard Linklater

• I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
• I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
• It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
• It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
• No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.
• Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
• The truth will only be told over a career.
• The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
• Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
• 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.
• Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
• I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
• Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
• Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
• I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
• I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
• I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
• I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
• I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
• I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
• I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
• I want to make a film about a factory worker.
• Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.