Richard Linklater

Like, hey, let's, you know, I think what he was really going for was a spontaneity, which, you know, it's a lot of confidence in your own

abilities to pull something together that's worthy of that.

But he certainly did.

He conjured up something miraculous.

And a lot of that you give credit to Gene Seberg and John Paul Belmondo, his main actors.

But he created this unique environment where that could happen.

I'm different.

Me and everybody.

99.9% of it.

You know, it's like, that's why it was fun to make a film.

If I was going to make a film about making a film, I didn't do it the way I would.

I think it would be kind of maybe a little boring.

You know, I'm kind of a worker.

grinder you know a lot of rehearsal a lot of but it's it's still fun we're it's i'm still looking for the new idea and all that just um i don't have the confidence and most people shouldn't that you can just turn on a camera and something miraculous happens

Godard was probably going back to the silent days when they really they didn't have scripts in the early first 20 something years of cinema.

You know, a director would just be shouting out ideas and directions and the actors would do it.

And a lot of comedy was based on things they worked up.

It was pretty spontaneous, a lot of that.

And then it became a little more literary.

And certainly in the sound era, it jumped to theater practically, much more of a writerly medium.