Richard Linklater Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

  Richard Linklater

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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

  Richard Linklater

  Film, Paint, Filmmaker

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

• I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

  Richard Linklater

  Boys, May, Film

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

• I want to make a film about a factory worker.

  Richard Linklater

  Want, Film, Factory Workers

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

• It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.

  Richard Linklater

  Writing, Expectations, Criticism

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

  Richard Linklater

  Interesting, Gone, Able

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

• I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film." But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Epic, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

  Richard Linklater

  Teenager, Writing, College

  "How Richard Linklater Turned a “Crazy, Wildly Impractical Idea” Into an Oscar Front-Runner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 27, 2014.

• All I've learned is that you need the studio system sometimes, if your budget is a certain size, and other films you can do independently. When I think of a studio, I generally think of distribution. Since I'm a director, I have a similar creative experience on every film I do, because I can control that. But then it's a different film, I think, as it reaches the public, depending on the way it's marketed. I don't know. I haven't learned much of anything. Sometimes you need them, sometimes you don't. Sometimes they want you, most of the time they don't.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Creative, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, People, Done

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

• I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about timing. There's a moment when you're hot and studios will make your next film, and then there's a moment when you're really cold, and they couldn't care less what you want to do next. That's when you have to recede and make lower-budgeted films.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Hot, Care

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

  Richard Linklater

  Writing, Criticism, Film

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

• I'm so happy and relieved for the indie spirited film world because ... I don't even know if it's indie, it's just alternative cinema that's just different than what the studios are doing and it's a big variety in that category. Everyone always is complaining about the film industry but I think it's important to acknowledge when it's actually a pretty good time when that comes back around. I'd be remiss not to say, "Hey, it's a pretty good era right now for these reasons," and maybe that doesn't last or maybe it does, but I will acknowledge it.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Important, Different

  Source: collider.com

• I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Lucky, Film

  "March 27, 1998". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

• I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.

  Richard Linklater

  Sides, Film, Fine

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

• Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.

  Richard Linklater

  Long, Trying, Kind

  Source: collider.com

• I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. No one believes this, but it's the same. I'm the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

  Richard Linklater

  Believe, Love Is, Trying

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

• Definitely my generation and beyond grew up in theaters and when you make a film you think of the theatrical experience. You think of that big screen in the darkened theater with a lot of people, so that's always the thought behind it. If that's the case, it's nice if that's available. That's great, but I don't really mind if they're watching films on a plane. I don't mind. Anybody who just wants to watch a movie, I can't complain. If that's the way they're going to watch them, that's the way they watch them. Who am I to judge?

  Richard Linklater

  Nice, Thinking, People

• It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

  Richard Linklater

  Art, Entertainment, Film

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

• I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

  Richard Linklater

  Kind, Film, Really Great

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Film, Trouble

  Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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