Boyhood

“I have to start with Boyhood because it was somehow so unexpected and was so wonderful. A miracle of a movie. How could he in the casting, especially with the boy, have the intuition that 10 years or 14 years later this boy would still be wonderful? And same with Arquette and everybody else. Hawke is just fabulous to see people really age on screen, no fake makeup, and still remain in their character. A miracle of a movie.”

“Something that strikes me as a filmmaker is the chance of use of time. I think cinema might be the only and The Most Beautiful time machine that humans have ever created. And this movie is a very good proof of it. This is Boyhood from Richard Linklater. This movie is very important to me. It lives in my heart, and I admire everyone that did this film. It really, really hit me. And when I grow up, I would like to make a movie as good as this one.”

“I think Richard Linklater is the great American director. Boyhood is like the Michael Apted Seven Up series in a narrative form, in a fictional movie. I saw it at Sundance and it destroyed me because to focus on all of the connective tissue between major events in people's lives and you just see it unfold over the course of many, many years. It's stunning and I'm a massive fan.”