I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
Richard LinklaterSomething about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
Richard LinklaterThere are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
Richard LinklaterTo those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or notโthat one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Richard Linklater