Richard Linklater Quotes

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film.

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.