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" 'The Newton Boys' was the one time I've made a film with really active characters who weren't at all self-reflexive and just plowed through their lives. There's a part of everyone that's like that. We have a biological imperative to keep living, keep moving forward... We have no choice. "

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" Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves; we're all stories of our own narrative. "

Richard Linklater

Live

Own

Powerful

" I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective. "

Richard Linklater

Animal

Food

" Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no. "

" Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris. "

Richard Linklater

Lesson

Good

" We emphasize negativity and violence in the media because that's what grabs everybody's attention, but in the real world, it's mostly people being very cooperative and caring and connected and kind. That's the norm of human experience. And yet, what gets our attention is the very opposite. "

" Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich. "

" Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. "

" As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic. "

" I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images. "

" I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. "

" The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do. "

" I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character. "

Richard Linklater

Kid

Grow Up

" Every day's a hustle. "

" I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to. "

" For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we've been lied to all our lives. You start educating yourself. You become motivated; you follow your muse where it takes you. And you see the world in a different way. You start making decisions based on what you feel is right. "

" I'd like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all. "

" I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American. "

" No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted. "

" Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size. "

" Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever. "

Richard Linklater

Person

Lonely

" You learn from everybody. "

" If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it. "

" The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life. "

" Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. "