Richard Linklater

I wish I did.

I wish I did, you know.

I mean, I played high school football in Texas, which, yeah, you know, I got some concussions.

So, you know, there's that.

But no, I don't blame that on my lack of facility with languages.

But yeah, everybody's mind is wired just a little differently.

Okay.

Yeah.

God, I was so blessed.

I mean, I've had some sympathy for people in their 20s trying to figure out what they're going to do in life.

And I've made movies about that and people trying to fit in.

I never had that at age 20.

i was working in houston i'd kind of dropped out of college and i i wanted to be a novelist then a playwright i was writing plays in my last semester of college and this one summer i started going to movies and i really discovered movies i was like oh that's my art form oh that's in my brain so i was 20 turning about to turn 21 and my whole life since then has i've known what i wanted to do i've

been very lucky to just the whole world kind of filters through cinema.

I think cinema is a great place for people who want to kind of escape the real world and into another world because it's so vast, you know, you can spend your whole life kind of, uh, there.

And so it attracts a certain personality.

So yeah, between the film society I started 40 years ago, we show, uh,

A ton of movies help filmmakers, so there's a whole film life of the cinephile that I've been able to experience.

And, you know, I did want to write and direct movies.

But even if I hadn't been able to do that, I still would have dedicated my life to it.