Richard Linklater is lamenting the current state of indie cinema: 'That's what happens when you let tech people take over your industry.'
trilogy that carry the spirit of his early work. Yet he also acknowledges that such films don't carry the same relevance they once did.
Linklater said it's not in his nature to make "huge statements about whether it's all over," but noted that the cinematic landscape has shifted. "With a changing culture and changing technology, it's hard to see cinema slipping back into the prominence it once held. I think we could feel it coming on when they started calling films 'content' — but that's what happens when you let tech people take over your industry," he said.
The director lamented the feeling that we've given up our lives to technologies that remove the need for "curating and filling ourselves up with meaning from art," saying that need has been replaced by "advanced delivery systems for advertising." It may feel like a bleak stance for lovers of the types of films Linklater holds dear. Still, he doesn't want to live as though the "best days" have already passed. "In your own area, you just have to persist and do what you can on behalf of the things that you believe in," he said. "You have to believe that everything can change and that things can go back to being a little better.
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