Quotes by Richard Linklater

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

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

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"I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images."

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"As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic."

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"I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience."

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"I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective."

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