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
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.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
It has to be very tight to seem loose.
If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
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.
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.
People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.