Richard Linklater
To point out that a Richard Linklater project has been long-gestating is almost laughably commonplace, as several of his projects have either taken a long time to get financed or a long time to shoot. He famously filmed Boyhood over 12 years, spread out the Before trilogy over nearly twenty years, and first wrote Everybody Wants Some!! back in the mid-2000’s.
“Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify.” The average life of the white collar worker is, from sunrise to sunset, an endless escapade of chores, professional obligations, and miscellaneous daily tasks, from the big decisions we have to make (college, job, spouse, etc.