Top 25 Quotes by Richard Linklater

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

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

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

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.