Richard Linklater Net Worth

Richard Linklater's Quotes

• Most of us are losers most of the time, if you think about it.
• [Terrence Malick] is a guy who sees his movies and thinks, "I would have done that differently". I see mine and say, "Given the circumstances, that's what I did and that's what I'd do again". I don't know how much of a free-will guy I am.
• But nothing is going to knock me off my game. Because I have some pretty low-budget films I want to do.
• I would have loved to have been a '40s studio director like Vincente Minnelli. You ended up with a real diverse career. Now you don't get a call from [Darryl F. Zanuck] saying, "Come do this movie on Monday". So you have to do it on your own.
• We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

Interesting Facts about Richard Linklater

1. Cut his directorial teeth on a $3,000 Super-8 feature.
2. Father of Lorelei Linklater, Alina Linklater, & Charlotte Linklater.
3. 7 October 2004: Three former friends of Linklater-Bobby Wooderson, Andy Slater, and Richard "Pink" Floyd-sued him for the unauthorized use of their names and images in the film Dazed and Confused (1993) and for their representation as stoners, which they say has damaged their reputation.
4. Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 9, 2007 in Austin, Texas.
5. Kevin Smith said that it was Linklater's Slacker (1990) that made him want to be a director.
6. Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999.
7. Profiled in "Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly", E.M. Walker, D.T. Johnson, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
8. First became passionate about film while working on an oil rig during college and realized he wanted to be a Director.
9. Founded the Austin Film Society.
10. Raging Bull (1980) was the catalyst for his approach towards cinema.
11. His top 10 films are Andrei Rublev (1966), Au hasard Balthazar (1966), The Flowers of St. Francis (1950), Day of Wrath (1943), Tokyo Story (1953), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Unfaithfully Yours (1948), Fanny and Alexander (1982) -the television version-, Pickpocket (1959), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945).
12. Sent a letter to Monte Hellman with a tape of his first film, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988).
13. Although the preference of dialogue over action in many of his movies, particularly the Before Trilogy, may lead some to believe that his movies are improvised by the actors, Linklater has often said that this is far from the truth: he rehearses his scenes constantly before filming, and does not allow any changes from the script while filming. He has said that he usually does not have the budget or the patience to allow for improvisation.
14. Was influenced by Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.
15. Many of his movies feature characters having philosophical talks.
16. Directed two actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette. Arquette won for her role in Boyhood (2014).
17. He is of German, Scottish, English, Irish, and Scots-Irish ancestry. His surname, "Linklater", is Scottish.
18. He directed Ethan Hawke in eight films: Before Sunrise (1995), The Newton Boys (1998), Waking Life (2001), Tape (2001), Before Sunset (2004), Fast Food Nation (2006), Before Midnight (2013) and Boyhood (2014).
19. Received Variety's Creative Impact in Cinema Award for his film Boyhood during the Texas Film Awards gala held on March 12, 2015 in Austin, Texas.
20. He never went to film school and learned everything he knows through experience and working.