I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. Richard Linklater More Quotes by Richard Linklater More Quotes From Richard Linklater I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with. Richard Linklater movieinspiringthinking I'm so happy and relieved for the indie spirited film world because ... I don't even know if it's indie, it's just alternative cinema that's just different than what the studios are doing and it's a big variety in that category. Everyone always is complaining about the film industry but I think it's important to acknowledge when it's actually a pretty good time when that comes back around. I'd be remiss not to say, "Hey, it's a pretty good era right now for these reasons," and maybe that doesn't last or maybe it does, but I will acknowledge it. Richard Linklater differentimportantthinking Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. Richard Linklater filmmakerpaintfilm When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that. Richard Linklater feel-goodlove-you If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? Richard Linklater diesenjoymeaningful That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare. Richard Linklater linesfeel-goodart 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. Richard Linklater visionsoulworld All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in." Richard Linklater just-friendsbreakmoving Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing to watch it through someone else's eyes, is to get another level of real with your material. Like, "Maybe that's not that funny. Maybe that's not as interesting. Maybe that's redundant to something else. Maybe we can cut down." I don't know. It's a brutal, honest process. You've got to be pretty - You can't be sentimental. You have to be. It's a cold process. You can't be nostalgic. You have to make those tough decisions. Richard Linklater cuttingeyereal 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. Richard Linklater twopeopleideas 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. Richard Linklater intelligentpeopleinteresting 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. Richard Linklater guykindkids Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it. Richard Linklater yeahmemoriesthinking 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. Richard Linklater donepeoplethinking In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it. Richard Linklater storiesseaway I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film." But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new. Richard Linklater epictryingthinking As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. Richard Linklater teenagercollegewriting To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Richard Linklater passionselfprofound It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. Richard Linklater happenstancework-outluck I have a lot of women friends - I feel like I finally matured a little. But initially I was attracted to some of them. I liked everything they were about. I think men are just taught: "Okay, well then, I should try to have sex with them." I'm just lucky that it went in the friendship direction, and it became a much stronger bond that's lasted a long time. You wonder how many potentially great friends you lose along the way because you become lovers and it is so painful when it's over and you can't turn it into a positive friendship. Richard Linklater menlongthinking
