Richard Linklater

But the actors, we have to replicate the exact steps, the turn, the gestures.

So we in rehearsals could really obsess on that and try to get that 100% accurate.

Our goal was...

you could put up the film and our film, and they would be totally in sync, just from a different angle.

So that was the obsessive goal.

I mean, we couldn't have made this film more different than the way they did it.

We were replicating something, and they could just show up on a Paris street and shoot.

We had to build it.

We had to create it.

64 years later, it looks different.

But we were back at a lot of the locations.

But it was really thrilling just to be making a film

In 1959, that's what we wanted this film to feel like.

It's using the language of that time, the look, the feel, everything about it we were trying to replicate.

I know that sounds insane.

There's like four things about this movie that sound kind of insane.

But that was really the least of my worries.

When I first thought of this, it was going to be...

a black and white French new wave movie with English subtitles.

That's what the, that's what the new Volvog look like to the world.