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
You're talking about the outsiders in society and how they deal with it and how they justify what they do. I can relate to that.
I don't want to glorify robbing banks, but I come from a world that shares Willis's view, that banks and so on are the biggest crooks of them all.
So I was saving up my money and bought a Super 8 camera, projector, some editing equipment, a bunch of film stock, and moved to Austin.
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
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.
We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.