Quotes from Richard Linklater

I've done my part to 'ruin' Austin.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been the coach cursing at the kids.

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

I'd like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

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.

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.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

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'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.

Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She's a fascinating artist in that world.

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.

The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

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.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

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.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself. - Celine

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

no one really knows anyone. That's the thing about relationships - people are always saying, "I want to know you, I want to know who you are." But it is so hard for anyone to even know themselves. Who I am is always changing, so how can anyone else share in that?