The

Making of Boyhood Transcript

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me
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I'm I'm asking myself that
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right at this moment okay good
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I was turning 40 and I've been apparent for about eight years
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and I wanted to say something about childhood I was trying to make a movie
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about childhood
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but then the dilemma hit me up like well what part a child
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all my ideas were all over the place the white offers
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you want the bombers like that the grid of
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1 through 12 those grades you kinda have to go to that's kinda what your sentence
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to from childhood you're gonna be in school to 12th grade
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you're gonna live in your parents house there was this thing beckoning be on
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I wanted to get there in the movie that's what I had to express about
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growing up finally I just had this one
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big idea want to skip the same cast will film a little bit each year like could
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you do that
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with that work as a movie
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I meant a lot to kids back then and Teller
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he seemed the most of all away little the real like two ways mine work he was
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at that age but I like this taste in I was kinda processing
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we were sort of family you know he's like the SUN I never had he was maturing
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along with my own daughter Laura Lai
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they were like siblings in a way killer
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thrust for you fun
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and well yeah like
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child back struggle who
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interesting here house
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home traffic check
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cast he said
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was more like I know about the project don't think I could
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live my life you normal fashion with some other girl in that part almost home
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nations
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cool Kenny
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in touch but it was good morning
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check
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I think my original conception I couldn't help but be a little more
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autobiographical
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thinking well maybe a kid who's means
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warts and all and I was not really like that at all but I could definitely see

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that he was gonna
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mature into an interesting adult or when Richard first call me asked me what do
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you do in the next 12 years
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and only about my part first just tell me about the idea
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said I wanna do it and then I said how what's the power
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should probably ask you that
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having
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I tools killed
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when I first came out
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her parents like me basically stay with them couple days like it took our
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laundromat
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home for a while are classed is trying to get them somewhat comfortable
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least asking me for saying
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for reversing she hunted mirrors
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saves you swing sonar sleeping in the world
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stories that they liked his ball caps on her bunghole another
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working
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just the layers of us after
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tried be
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Graham should the hugh
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you know the phone call boyhood but it could be called

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motherhood fatherhood bumbling to adulthood it was an opportunity to see
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parents evolve as well as kids further
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cuz I'm seeing a lot more me okay
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committee to real bad was gone I want you know that
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Disney did take some time come a simple idea
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really to watch time work
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to a film but so impractical on
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production next year short
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see you to shoot three days you still have to cast in good locations and
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get a crew in rent equipment each time it was like its own
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film I got lucky that i've seen productions have fun in my last two
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films
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like the idea low-budget enough I mean there give me just another year
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but do it professionally it's very important shooting in thirty
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five-millimeter
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I want the film to look like one film almost to be
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seamlessly dissolving from one year to the next people subtly aging
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so had issued a film I think
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hideout for any in the current technologies that would be very dated
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usually hey me

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this hi
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McAteer pretty I new parks him
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%um from yeah I mean on
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my mom is very young when she had me at the issues 22
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19g my older sister we saw him in that way
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grew up together here people have teen mom say oh we grew up together but
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there's something to that
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you go through their own maturation their own dating
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so my mom get married three times love relationships
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to meet graduate school we were kinda pulled through her entire life when I
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was a young adolescent male
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there is this growing sexual awareness you know all this pressure starts ask
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get to taste is like what high school guys talk like that very kind crude and
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sexual
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hope it's funny you feel the character's life is parallel your life
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in many the people at now
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and not between pretty different character
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I'm their mean there's certain aspects in
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there's drug there's there what everyone goes through pipe
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in more similar and correct I'll min
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I'm haha what Rick

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tries to do is kinda harness the collective imagination in get people
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aboard something larger than something one individual could do
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reads
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and attack here imminent
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this is one of the first years were eller
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has evolved into such a Cole collaborator you know the early years it
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was sorta manipulating a performance from a kid
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to now you know we started several weeks ago just got a lawyer
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you're talking about the year trading ideas I work with eller the same way I
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work with the
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now you know it's funny the way memory work some kind of obsessed with them
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so this film I was really trying to go for those off-kilter moments you know
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they're not trying to say
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any big statement about growing up it's just another moment in your life
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there's a lot of drama in and around but
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to varying degrees what's dramatic what's not dramatic what's been now
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what's
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poetry where you wanna be Mason when you wanna do
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all the areas that we are gonna wear all
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things we mess how we think these big moments our lives when I graduate when I

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get married
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really maybe life is the moments in between this
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surprised
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to Mason hood
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heated creature in its own right who use it happen
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monster thank you when he goes away to school
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there's a party her I think that life is going to be in
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one searches grew up my
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skinny girl series miles
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sending you out to college you know for all
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she's not even aware enough to be able to say I just don't know who I am when
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I'm
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her last baby does it'd
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we him
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9 a.m.
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by then month no heavy metals doing hot sauce
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it's not important to know that for
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just like in life how boring it would be if you knew the day in time with your
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own death or something
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mean I've had 12 years to think about the notion that will
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word is growing up and murders aging start

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you know you ask anyone like even our title where does like his boyhood and
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their year that you're no longer you know like does that mean
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sometimes we joke about that alternate title the would be some grow up
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some age because watching this movie basically a fast time is always moving
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now a lotta ways movies about
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turning to live in the present mean the good news is here monster
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in you hold my mother
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pictured sunk
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me just finish 12 your project after 12 years
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I feel like I've taken it for granted for a long time just
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this project and being able to work on just because
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I don't remember life without it so it's just been Fletcher
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integral part of everything I have forgotten to appreciate it I think
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for a lot of the time
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feel kinda remorseful it almost perfect for that and that we can have the
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message that the movie clothes on
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to yourself in a moment so maybe that's what I've learned
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most of all Anna
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and how an expert
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