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
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.
Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...
As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.
I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.
Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.
The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.