A story about Richard Linklater
“Director Richard Linklater is here. I assume we’ll have a long, meandering conversation that does not end with us having sex.”
-Stephen Colbert
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Texan who did Slacker and Dazed & Confused. Genius! Born July 30, 1960 in Houston. Lives in Austin.
Recent stories by and about Richard Linklater
How I met Richard Linklater
I met him at the Premiere of A Scanner Darkly. I felt very self conscious and akward. He is super intelligent, a quality I admire. I think I told him I was a Gemini and he told me he was a Leo..but then he went into this dialogue how astrology was people’s way of trying to understand things. Anyway, I kinda hung around him. I heard him saying how he thought it amazing that people were out so late on a weeknight, at which point I said to him..”Look, I have to be at work very early tomorrow..could I please get your autograph?” He came over and gave it to me in the book I had and he even drew some devil horns on his face for me! I’ll tell you I got some pretty wicked smiles from him that night.
Why I admire Richard Linklater
I watched WAKING LIFE and I truly admire all that Karmicomicosmic sense of humor that went into the writing of that film. Hats off to Linklater! -s.s.raros(poet&columnist)
Why I want to meet Richard Linklater
“Waking Life” is one of my favorite films. Rotoscoped animation, uncomfortably sliding between almost real to fantasy (reflecting the subject matter), backgrounds endlessly shifting and moving, jumping from one setting to another and tackling ambitious subjects of reality/dreaming/evolution/god, it has got to be the most uncomfortable, most profound and most interesting animated films I have ever seen.
I can’t wait for “A Scanner Darkly” to be released. Maybe, if I meet him, Richard can give me a sneak peak…
Why I want to meet Richard Linklater
I used to want to meet Richard Linklater so I could punch him in the nose for making Dazed and Confused and reminding me just how truly jaded, dazed, and confused were those of us who came of age in the 70s. Then I saw an interview he did where he said the movie wasn’t intended to be a nostalgic “aw, those were the good old days” kind of film. So I decided violence wasn’t the right response. I mean, the guy has to have some kind of genius for accurately capturing that screwed up decade and its misbegotten youth.
Still, when I watch the movie, it’s easy to remember why so many of us spent the decade stoned out of our minds.
