The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone. – Richard Linklater
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. – Richard Linklater
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors. – Richard Linklater
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. – Richard Linklater
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn’t have been seen. – Richard Linklater
Something about Texas I’m not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone. – Richard Linklater
I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people’s radar a little. – Richard Linklater
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. – Richard Linklater
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich. – Richard Linklater
No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it’s easier to get on the subway and not be accosted. – Richard Linklater
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn’t know would never get financing. – Richard Linklater
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles. – Richard Linklater
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. – Richard Linklater
It’s disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it’s not an art form. – Richard Linklater
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they’ll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. – Richard Linklater
