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• I have a lot of women friends - I feel like I finally matured a little. But initially I was attracted to some of them. I liked everything they were about. I think men are just taught: "Okay, well then, I should try to have sex with them." I'm just lucky that it went in the friendship direction, and it became a much stronger bond that's lasted a long time. You wonder how many potentially great friends you lose along the way because you become lovers and it is so painful when it's over and you can't turn it into a positive friendship.

  Richard Linklater

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

  Richard Linklater

  Love You, Feel Good

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the animators could hide something so secretly that I could watch it numerous times, both on the computer and on the screen, and not pick up on it, then it deserves to be in the movie. But if they had more overt things, I'd often tell them to cut it out. In general, as long as they captured the spirit of the character, then they're fine. But sometimes it took a while, and we had to replace a lot of animators.

  Richard Linklater

  Character, Cutting, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  Richard Linklater

  Age, Being Lied, Lied

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

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• 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

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• That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.

  Richard Linklater

  Art, Feel Good, Lines

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing to watch it through someone else's eyes, is to get another level of real with your material. Like, "Maybe that's not that funny. Maybe that's not as interesting. Maybe that's redundant to something else. Maybe we can cut down." I don't know. It's a brutal, honest process. You've got to be pretty - You can't be sentimental. You have to be. It's a cold process. You can't be nostalgic. You have to make those tough decisions.

  Richard Linklater

  Real, Eye, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in."

  Richard Linklater

  Moving, Just Friends, Break

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

  Richard Linklater

  Passion, Self, Profound

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• If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

  Richard Linklater

  Play, Audience, Ifs

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• …[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

  Richard Linklater

  Writing, Use, Clay

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• 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.

  Richard Linklater

  Ambition, Everyday, Finding Yourself

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

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• 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.

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• It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.

  Richard Linklater

  Ideas, Two, People

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• Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

  Richard Linklater

  Intelligent, People, Interesting

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

  Richard Linklater

  Work Out, Luck, Happenstance

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

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

  Richard Linklater

  Stories, Want, Size

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

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• 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

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• I think casting is really important. Finding the right sensibility for the right part is an art in itself. If you're off there, you make it harder on yourself as a director. And it's fun to work that out with the actors. I don't think there's any magic to directing actors. It's very instinctual. Working with actors is really one of my favorite creative moments of the whole process, and the most fun, because it's collaborative. I spend a lot of time rehearsing. I'm very rehearsal-oriented, probably because I have some background in theater. I like knowing what will work beforehand.

  Richard Linklater

  Art, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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