Richard Linklater Quotes

For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be a hit. I thought it was an average song.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

I believe in the theory that one cannot make a good film; it just happens.

I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

You know, I have been insanely lucky.

I don't think I'm an unlucky person.

I had no clue on what I wanted to do when I was younger, so I was pretty lucky with this YouTube thing.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!