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  • My sisters would swear that I was the spoiled kid who got everything he wanted, and I would go "No way! I worked my ass off and you guys got everything." We're all kind of in our own narratives.

    Kids   Guy   Kind  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

    Asking   Care   Subway  
    "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview With David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.
  • 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.

    "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.
  • I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.

    Life   Thinking   Essence  
  • I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

    ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.
  • It has to be very tight to seem loose.

    Seems  
  • If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?

    Meaningful   Enjoy   Dies  
  • I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.

    Sides   Film   Fine  
    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.
  • The truth will only be told over a career.

    Careers  
    Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.
  • …[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

    Writing   Use   Clay  
  • Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.

    Long   Trying   Kind  
    Source: collider.com
  • Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

    Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.162, Vintage
  • Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...

    "The Before Midnight Team: Reunion of the Year 2013". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. December 5, 2013.
  • People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

    Drama   Heart   Thinking  
    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.
  • I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

    Ideas   Guy   Avant Garde  
    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.
  • All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in."

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

    Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.192, Vintage
  • The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

    Nuts   Cracks   Stories  
    "30 Essential Directing Tips From 30 Master Filmmakers" by Zack Sharf, Slide 5, www.indiewire.com. March 07, 2016.
  • As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

    Odds   Government   Ego  
    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.
  • I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film." But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new.

    Thinking   Epic   Trying  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Your 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.

    Soul   Vision   World  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

    Boys   Thinking   Years  
  • Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

    "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview With David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.
  • Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

  • You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.

    Thinking   People   Done  
    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.
  • There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

    Animal   Ideas   Nuts  
  • We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

    "Before Sunrise". www.imdb.com. January 24, 1995.
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