10 Amazingly Profound Quotes About Life From Richard Linklater Films

"When I say love, the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say yes, they understand. But how do I know they understand? 

Because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable. And yet you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for." 

Waking Life is Linklater's least accessible film; an experimental animated/mo-cap meandering film about dreams and reality. The whole film is basically made up lengthy existential conversations, the like of which you expect stoners to have all the time.

This particularly long segment from Kim Krizen (playing herself) touches on the notion of how no-one perceives the world in the same way, yet we find joy in sharing experiences with other people. It's boggling stuff, but fascinating.