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
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
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.
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.
It has to be very tight to seem loose.
Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.