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

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.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

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