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 worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
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.
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.
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.