Richard Linklater Quotations

The truth will only be told over a career.

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

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

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

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

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

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.