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
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.
I want to make a film about a factory worker.
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.
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.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
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.