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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.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

Richard Linklater

Trump has a lot less than he says he does.

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

Richard Linklater

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.

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

Every day's a hustle.

Richard Linklater

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.

Richard Linklater

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

Richard Linklater

I always thought that I had a pretty diverse body of work, I mean, as far as subject matter. Teenage rock and roll movie; romance; '20s Western. On paper it looks different, but then there's similarities in the vibe of them.

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that's outside the work itself.

Richard Linklater

I want cinema to be a part of my life. It's natural for me.

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

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

Richard Linklater

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

I always say I'll never make a film in Austin in summer, but I always end up here.

Richard Linklater

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

Richard Linklater

I remember playing for coaches who seemed like military-type guys. It always rubbed me the wrong way.

Richard Linklater

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.

Richard Linklater

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

My dad's chill. He's the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, 'Well, nobody was hurt. It's just some metal.'

Richard Linklater

Every college player thinks they're on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit.

Richard Linklater

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

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

The '70s kind of sucked.

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

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

Richard Linklater

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

Richard Linklater

'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.

Richard Linklater

It was always kind of sad when your favorite punk rockers, like Jello Biafra or someone, would say they hate something you like. It was, 'Oh, I thought we were on the same page.'

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

Richard Linklater

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

Richard Linklater

My working method has always been, 'Work really hard and get it right the first time.'

Richard Linklater