Richard Linklater Quotes

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

I've always been playing because I knew this was eventually going to pay off in the long run for me.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

Rome was not built in one day.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer's office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.