Richard Linklater
Director
1960-07-30
Quotes by Richard Linklater
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They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?
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I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.- Celine
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They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?
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I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.- Celine
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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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Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.
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Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
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When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.
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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.
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Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
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I'd like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.
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Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
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Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.
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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.
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Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
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I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.
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