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Richard Stuart Linklater was born on 30 July 1960, in Houston, Texas USA, and is a filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter, best known for his film work including “Slacker”, “Dazed and Confused” and the “Before Sunrise” Trilogy. He also created “School of Rock”, and all of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Richard Linklater? As of late-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $12 million, mostly earned through a successful career as a filmmaker. He created “Boyhood” which received critical acclaim and would win him numerous awards. He’s also known for loyalty to his actors; As he continues his career it is expected that his wealth will increase.

Linklater attended Huntsville High School, then transferred to Bellaire High School during his senior year. After matriculating, he attended Sam Houston State University, playing baseball in the school before dropping out to work on an oil rig, during which time he developed a habit of reading novels and later films when he returned. He then realized he wanted to be a filmmaker, buying equipment and moving to Austin, Texas. In 1984, he attended Austin Community College to study film.

The following year, Richard created the Austin film society, and would work on several short films using various techniques. He eventually made his first feature film entitled “It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books” which took two years to complete. Afterwards, he would create Detour Film production, and would make “Slacker” with a budget of only $23,000, which became highly successful and grossed $1.25 million. He became an independent film star, and would create his second film “Dazed and Confused” which was based on his years at high school, again becoming successful, and grossing $8 million which considerably helped his career and that of actor Matthew McConaughey. In 1995, he would create the film “Before Sunrise”, which would win him a Silver Bear for Best Director Award. The following year, he would lend his voice to the animated film “Beavis and Butt-Head Do America”, however, in 1998 his attempt to make his first Hollywood film “The Newton Boys” which did not prove successful.

Later on he would make rotoscope films including “A Scanner Darkly” and “Waking Life”. He also created several mainstream comedies, including “Bad News Bears” and “School of Rock”, all of which would achieve a significant amount of success. He was later nominated for an Academy Award for his films “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight”. In 2006, he created the film “Fast Food Nation”, an adaptation of a book of the same name, which drew mixed reviews, and he would later create “Me and Orson Wells” which became successful. In 2014, he released the film “Boyhood” which would gain critical acclaim including a perfect 100 score from Metacritic; the film co-stars his daughter. Afterwards, he would create a spiritual successor to “Dazed and Confused” entitled “Everybody Wants Some!!”For his personal life, it is known that Richard had a daughter – Lorelei Grace Linklater – with wife Christina Harrison, who would become an actress, starring in “Boyhood”.

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Richard Stuart Linklater Trademarks

1. Frequently writes and/or directs movies starring children or teens, e.g., Dazed and Confused (1993), School of Rock (2003), Bad News Bears (2005), _Boyhood (2014)_, and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016).
2. Frequently casts Ethan Hawke
3. His movies often reference Little League baseball
4. His movies often take place in Texas
5. His films often take place within a single day

Richard Stuart Linklater Quotes

• [2013 interview, on Before Sunrise (1995)] Julie, Ethan and I all knew we had had a special experience, but you don’t expect anything more than that. I think we all like the film and were happy with what it became and everything, but we never talked of it at that time as anything more. It was actually a small studio release – it got released by Columbia – but it was 2.7 million dollars, it was less than half the budget of the film I had made before, Dazed and Confused (1993), so to me it was a little European art film, but I think for a second there was some expectation that this could be the next Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and I’m like, ” I could guarantee you it won’t be, for all these reasons!”, but I can’t blame anyone for having hope – I love that about our business, people want to be optimistic about stuff. But it did about….what the other two have done! You know, there’s an audience but it was never going to be a mainstream success. But it got generally well-reviewed I felt, people got it. That’s were it started – the people who liked it, liked it. Most people….didn’t notice it!
• If cinema was a painting, time would be the paint itself.
• [on Boyhood (2014)] It was ultimately 12 scripts. Every year, I got to think about it. And as we got closer to shooting, I got to see how the film felt over the years. It’s rare that a film gives you that chance to edit and think about what it needs. There was this ever-growing film that I got to just contemplate that was pretty amazing. I never did a film that wanted to be itself so much. Just its own thing. So it was a very incremental adjustment every year with the actors. It’s a methodology that’s so unnatural, so different, but there was a real upside within that.
• [on the power of time as a concept] I bet the whole farm on what I thought would work with every ounce of my cinematic being, the way we perceive time and cinema and the way we identify with people put before us in a certain way. I thought, “Oh, there will be this cumulative effect.” It’s an investment. Just the way the crew and the cast had invested, two years in, three years in, it just deepened and felt richer.
• You see how life just accumulates. Our fundamental view of the world is measured by who we are today and who we’ve been, and that’s not going anywhere. It’s only expanding throughout our lives, it’s always profound and inescapable how we perceive the world through that viewpoint.
• [on how he handled the passing of time on Boyhood (2014)] I think the tendency would be to draw attention to it, like, “Hey look how it’s a year later!” And your memory doesn’t work that way. I wanted the thing to feel like a memory, and it just kind of flows. So I wanted the audience to earn the transition by observation. Sometimes it’s a little more obvious. But I didn’t want like, a direct-cut close-up of Ellar with long hair, and then the next shot he has short hair. I actually cut a transition between years one and two and then again between years 11 and 12 because I wasn’t happy with it. It was a little too obvious.
• The most unique property of cinema is how it lets you mold time, whether it’s over a long or a very brief period.
• [on Greece as the setting for Before Midnight (2013)] To place Jesse and Celine’s issues of the day in a much bigger context, you realize there’s nothing new here, this is completely eternal. Issues go on between partners, men and women, families. I liked the macro thinking of all that with our specific little moment in time.
• We get a lot of cautionary tales about the dangers of getting exactly what you want in life, you know, if you take out the striving and the incompleteness, then where are you?
• [on the woman Linklater met in Philadelphia as a young man, who inspired the Before Trilogy] She kind of echoes through the film. I always felt I would see her, like she would show up at a screening. When you make a film, you’re in public quite a bit. You do screenings, festivals. I run into a lot of old friends, and I figured, just in my mind, ‘I have a screening in Philadelphia; maybe she’ll be in New York. … ‘ And she never showed up. Even in the second film, I think that, in a way, works into the idea of the novel [that Hawke’s character, Jesse, writes] and it’s sent out as a beacon, you know, in some way, what Jesse admits to, that was swirling around. And I don’t want to exaggerate: [My experience] wasn’t as intense of a relationship, obviously, as Celine and Jesse have; it was just something swirling around in my mind. The new film is dedicated to her.” [Linklater learned from a mutual friend that the woman died in a motorcycle accident shortly before Before Sunrise (1995) began filming.]
• [on Before Midnight (2013)] The essence of you probably doesn’t change and that’s really one of the concerns of the movie. Have Celine and Jessie changed? They are still themselves; they seem very connected to the same person they were at 23 and yet life has this way of attaching things to them, whether it’s children or just life experience and responsibility certainly. It’s a very different life at 23 where you could just get off a train with no one waiting on you back home, no schedule. When we meet them the second time they are very scheduled. He has a plane to catch, he is at work and she is grounded in the city she lives in. So you see the reality closing in even though it’s still this romantic encounter. By the time of the third film they are in the real world, we see their social interactions and they are much more grounded.
• [on the ‘Before’ films] Each film is like doing a thesis, and this is an ongoing doctoral dissertation. I feel I could go back and get another degree. I read books about it and articles, and all that stuff. I know a lot on an intellectual level, but how it applies to my own life, I don’t know…it’s my exploration of being an adult male. It’s a mystery how love redefines itself. There’s the white heat of attraction that we interpret as a deep connection and love. But it’s different from what makes a long-term partnership.
• This whole notion of love being based on attraction is fairly recent in history and is not a very stable indicator. That’s why, throughout history, most marriages have been arranged and not in the hands of the people themselves because you’re not equipped to to make a good decision when you have the hots for someone. It feels good now, but where are you going to be in two years from now. You can’t entrust love to two kids. Look at Romeo and Juliet. Tying love an romance together is really just something we’ve done in the last two or three hundred years.
• We get a lot of cautionary tales about the dangers of getting exactly what you want in life. You know, if you take out the striving and the incompleteness, then where are you?
• [on Raging Bull (1980)] It made me see movies as a potential outlet for what I was thinking about and hoping to express. At that point, I was an unformed artist. At that moment, something was simmering in me, but “Raging Bull” brought it to a boil.
• It’s tough, man. Unless it’s a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that’s all the studios are even doing. They’ve kind of admitted they’re not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you’re out of the league, you’re done.
• My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.
• These days we can be sued for disparaging an industry. It’s like it’s a felony to say something bad. I think they should make it a felony to criticize a film product. Particularly my film product. It’s anti-American. I’d like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can’t say something nice you shouldn’t say anything at all.
• We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
• 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.
• But nothing is going to knock me off my game. Because I have some pretty low-budget films I want to do.
• [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.
• Most of us are losers most of the time, if you think about it.

Richard Stuart Linklater Important Facts

• 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.
• 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).
• He is of German, Scottish, English, Irish, and Scots-Irish ancestry. His surname, “Linklater”, is Scottish.
• Directed 2 actors in Oscar nominated performances: Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette. Arquette won for her role in Boyhood (2014).
• Many of his movies feature characters having philosophical talks.
• Was influenced by Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.
• 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.
• Sent a letter to Monte Hellman with a tape of his first film, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988).
• 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).
• Raging Bull (1980) was the catalyst for his approach towards cinema.
• Founded the Austin Film Society.
• First became passionate about film while working on an oil rig during college and realized he wanted to be a Director.
• 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.
• Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999.
• Kevin Smith said that it was Linklater’s Slacker (1991) that made him want to be a director.
• Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 9, 2007 in Austin, Texas.
• Has been a vegetarian since his early 20s.
• 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.
• Father of Lorelei Linklater.
• Cut his directorial teeth on a $3,000 Super-8 feature.

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