Richard Linklater Quotes

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

Richard Linklater

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• Directors
• Storytelling
• Filmmaking

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• All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Storytelling

• Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Innovation
  • Filmmaking

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Kind
  • Taste
  • Filmmaking

• The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Purpose
  • Unique
  • Humans

• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Humans

• For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Magic
  • Humans
  • Flying

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
  • Giving
  • Respect

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Ifs

• The only bad thing is that Smallville is shot in Vancouver, and Michael and I live in L.A. So sometimes I feel like a Ping-Pong ball.

  

  Annette O'Toole
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bad

• Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • American
  • Law
  • Directors

• Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Directors
  • Concept
  • Screenplay

• A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Good
  • Book
  • Picture

• The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Humans
  • Plans

• I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Freedom
  • Humans
  • Illusion

• There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Humans
  • Virtue
  • Shame

• Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

  

  Joshua Adam Klinghoffer Ataxia
  • People
  • Trying
  • Collections

• Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Shows
  • Hated
  • Objects

• We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Kingdoms

• There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Humans
  • Directors
  • Storytelling