Top 25 Quotes by Richard Linklater

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

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

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

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

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

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

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

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.