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.
Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.
I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
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.
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.