Richard Linklater Quotes

Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

That's part of show business: the moving.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

All around you everything is on the move.

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.