Top 25 Quotes by Richard Linklater

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

The truth will only be told over a career.

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

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

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

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

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.

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

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