American - Director | July 30, 1960 -
The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life.
Richard Linklater
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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.
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I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.
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Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves; we're all stories of our own narrative.
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The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.
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Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
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Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.
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It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
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The best thing for your psyche as you try to accomplish anything, really, is to just concentrate on all the little things. And not just as a means to an end, but truly enjoy them.
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I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
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We emphasize negativity and violence in the media because that's what grabs everybody's attention, but in the real world, it's mostly people being very cooperative and caring and connected and kind. That's the norm of human experience. And yet, what gets our attention is the very opposite.
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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.
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