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
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
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.
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.
The truth will only be told over a career.
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.