Richard Linklater Quotes
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.
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The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
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A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
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Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.
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If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
