Richard Linklater Quotes

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

Richard Linklater

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• I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Painter
  • Related
  • Portrait

• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painter

• I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Painter
  • Between
  • Abstract

• 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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Might
  • Filmmaker

• 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.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Book
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  • Film

• I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Painter
  • Indian

• 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.'

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Artist
  • Lawyer
  • Painter

• 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.

  

  Odilon Redon
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  • Woman
  • Intellectual

• I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Filmmaker
  • Journalist
  • Reviews

• The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Important
  • Art
  • Painter

• A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

  

  Mary Astor
  • Movie
  • Actor
  • Writer

• 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.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Running
  • Painter
  • Champagne

• For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Done
  • Film
  • Musician

• I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Think
  • Painter
  • Accident

• 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.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Acting
  • Profession

• A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Feelings
  • Painter
  • Visions

• The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painter
  • Evaluation
  • Secret Of Art

• I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Nature
  • Painter
  • Grasp

• You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Filmmaker
  • Box
  • Encouraged

• The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Action
  • Reason
  • Film

• Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Beach

• And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

  

  Plato
  • Reputation
  • Self-respect
  • Victors

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

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Painter
  • Filmmaker