Boyhood and School of Rock director Richard Linklater speaks on the current state of American and independent filmmaking.
In a recent interview with, Linklater was asked about the current state of indie filmmaking and where American cinema is headed following the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It feels like it’s gone with the wind — or gone with the algorithm,” Linklater answered. “Sometimes I’ll talk to some of my contemporaries who I came up with during the 1990s, and we’ll go, ‘Oh my God, we could never get that done today.’ So, on the one hand, selfishly, you think, ‘I guess I was born at the right time. I was able to participate in what always feels like the last good era for filmmaking.’ And then you hope for a better day. But, man, the way distribution has fallen off.
He continued, “With a changing culture and changing technology, it’s hard to see cinema slipping back into the prominence it once held. I think we could feel it coming on when they started calling films “content” — but that’s what happens when you let tech people take over your industry. It’s hard to imagine indie cinema in particular having the cultural relevance that it did. It’s hard to imagine the whole culture is going to be on the same page about anything, much less filmmaking.
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