Linklater: The Enigma

Richard Linklater: writer-director of Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.

Richard Linklater: the director of The School of Rock, the remake of Bad News Bears, but who turned down directing a Harry Potter sequel.

Richard Linklater is an enigma and this Toronto Star interview does a good job of trying to get to the bottom of it all while discussing his new film, A Scanner Darkly, another adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel.

Here is an early Linklater interview by Alice Hicks of MovieMaker Magazine.

Here is a more academic look at Linklater's oeuvre via Senses of Cinema.