Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
Richard LinklaterI did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
Richard LinklaterI'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
Richard LinklaterEverything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with.
Richard Linklater