Top 25 Quotes by Richard Linklater

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

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

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

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

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

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.

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

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

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

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