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Richard Linklater Quotes - Page 2

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It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

"You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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

"You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview With David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

"How Richard Linklater Turned a “Crazy, Wildly Impractical Idea” Into an Oscar Front-Runner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 27, 2014.

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

Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.