Richard Linklater Quotes

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the journey of storytelling, I am an explorer.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

You become the movie you are making.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

I think films are bigger than structure.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.