Top 25 Quotes by Richard Linklater

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

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

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.

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

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

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

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

The truth will only be told over a career.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.