Linklater is best known for his walk-and-talk Before trilogy, titles like Dazed and Confused and Boyhood, and for his naturalistic filmmaking. Linklater, who was previously at the fest with 2006 sci-fi thriller A Scanner Darkly, said of what Breathless meant to him, as a filmmaker, that “It represented freedom and the notion of the personal film.”

Linklater isn't worried about Trump's proposed tariffs on movies that don't shoot in the U.S.: "That guy changes his mind like 50 times in one day"

Nouvelle Vague director and Austin, TX native Richard Linklater is calling B.S. on President Donald Trump’s suggestion for film tariffs. “That’s not gonna happen. That guy changes his mind 50 times.