Richard Linklater

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

I think people are sick and tired of bailouts, domestically and internationally.

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.