Richard Linklater Quotes

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

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

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.