Richard Linklater

So it's just a fun thing we come together and do.

It's weird, but it's really pretty exhilarating.

So if I had to analyze it, I think I love living inside a project for a long time.

I must, you know?

But it's really just storytelling.

It's how to tell that story...

Effectively, where I think it will work as a film.

So much of filmmaking is problem solving.

That play notoriously didn't work for about 40 years.

And more recently, there's been some excellent productions.

This London-based one that came to Broadway and was a big hit.

And they've cracked it to a large degree.

But I still think it would benefit from kind of the reality that a film would give.

And Sondheim agreed, you know, he was a real film guy.

And he always kind of even said, you know, maybe this was a film anyway, you know, so.

Yeah, well, new waves in music or anything.

It's just, you know, it's a new generation's come along and you're not happy with the status quo as much as you love your art form.

You know, things are tired.

You're sick of what you've been watching your whole life.

You want to do something different.