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 LinklaterEveryone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
Richard LinklaterYour friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.
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