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There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.

~Richard Linklater

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I remember playing for coaches who seemed like military-type guys. It always rubbed me the wrong way.

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The best thing for your psyche as you try to accomplish anything, really, is to just concentrate on all the little things. And not just as a means to an end, but truly enjoy them.

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The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.

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A certain kind of film is a big theatrical film and a certain kind of film isn't. It doesn't bother me so much that you can pick your format.

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I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but I think it's going to be seen in someone's room at two in the morning.' It's that kind of movie. And I would have loved if it had been available on multiple formats at the moment it opened.

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I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

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When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.

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There are really a lot of dark shadings to a lot of my stuff.

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We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 30th, 1960

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