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.”

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.

Acclaimed U.S. director Richard Linklater initially thought his film about the French New Wave movement, "Nouvelle Vague," would never be shown at theatres in France due to his nationality, he told journalists at the Cannes Film Festival.