American - Director | July 30, 1960 -
I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.
Richard Linklater
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Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.
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I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
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The truth will only be told over a career.
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We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.
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Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.
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Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
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I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
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I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
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'The Newton Boys' was the one time I've made a film with really active characters who weren't at all self-reflexive and just plowed through their lives. There's a part of everyone that's like that. We have a biological imperative to keep living, keep moving forward... We have no choice.
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The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the academic culture has a lot, but there's no way to communicate it in a wide way.
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Every day's a hustle.
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