Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater
Richard Stuart Linklater is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Linklater is mostly known for his natural humanist films which mainly revolve around personal relationships, suburban culture, and the effects of the passage of time. Some notable films of his include the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused, the romantic drama film trilogy Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight; the music-themed comedy School of Rock, and the rotoscope animated Waking Lifeand A Scanner Darkly. In 2002 he began filming Boyhood,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 July 1960
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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.
People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
It has to be very tight to seem loose.
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.
Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.
I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
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.