Richard Linklater Quotes

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Remember

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Family
  • Law
  • Problem

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Want
  • Film
  • Listen

• If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Working

• I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • First
  • More
  • Generation

• In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Difficult
  • Without
  • Scale

• I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Love
  • Thought
  • Acting

• I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Really
  • Admit
  • Hubble

• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Hand

• Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Way
  • Matter

• I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

  

  Mae West
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Loved

• My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • May
  • Faith

• Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • People
  • Actions
  • Secrets

• 'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

  

  William Goldman
  • Heart
  • Wall
  • Secret

• I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

  

  Katherine Shindle
  • Listening
  • Everybody
  • Weeks

• To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink.

  

  Ruth Pitter
  • Writing
  • Winning
  • Sweet

• “Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful." "You want to be beautiful?" I asked him. "Are you saying I'm not?"

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Said

• I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Beginning

• I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

  

  Richard Linklater
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  • Wanted
  • Filmmaker