Richard Linklater Quotes

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

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

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

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

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

I like to produce my own movies.

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.