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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even  reading  yet  
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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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in  the  mail  
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the  mine  
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home  in