Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

- Richard Linklater

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.

- Richard Linklater

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.

- Richard Linklater

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

- Richard Linklater

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.

- Richard Linklater