Richard Linklater

You know, it was this French language is to me, that's how the movie sound, but it's the subtitle.

So I was making a subtitle movie and I didn't really, uh,

I cared deeply about the French version.

I wanted that to work in France.

I wanted them to like it and I went out of my way to do that.

But me not having the language was – it wasn't even in my top ten concerns about if I could pull off the movie.

It really wasn't.

I don't know where I got that kind of confidence but I was just kind of like, no, here's how we'll do it.

I had a methodology and everyone I worked with –

English is everyone's second language now.

So my crew, everybody understanding 80 plus percent of what I'm saying.

And we'd rehearse in English.

And it was a pretty fun process.

It was kind of amazing.

It really emphasized the visual, which what this is.

But the final little, maybe I did my own little...

control group study about performance on this in that my goal with actors is to make them comfortable.

We rehearse a lot.

We answer questions.

I just want to build an arena where they can do their best work and feel comfortable and contribute and