American - Director | July 30, 1960 -
I'm interested in people forging their realities.
Richard Linklater
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I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making movies, to the Film Society, to just being in a film world. It's a life that I wanted to inhabit. I think everyone has the opportunity to do that in this world - it's just, are you gonna work for it, and how much does it mean to you?
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I really do remember everything. I see people I haven't seen in 20 years, and I can talk with them about what we talked about outside the high school.
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My dad's chill. He's the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, 'Well, nobody was hurt. It's just some metal.'
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As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.
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Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.
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I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.
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I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them.
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No one believes this, but when I'm working, it's the same, whether I'm working on 'Bad News Bears,' 'Before Sunset,' 'A Scanner Darkly,' or 'Fast Food Nation.' I'm the same person, trying to make it work.
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I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.
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Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are slightly smaller projects. Some could be sketches. They're not all oil paintings.
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I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character to the next to the next and never return.
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