12 Years Later: Boyhood Q&A w/Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette & Ellar Coltrane

And as I was watching "Boyhood" this time, you know, twelve years later since it was released when I saw it in theaters the first time, and I'm sure I had re-watched it once or twice in between that time.

But, you know, it's been a minute since I went back and watched it.

And so I'm sitting there thinking, "Released twelve years ago.

Saw it in a theater twelve years ago.

It's interesting to be seeing it again in theaters." And I was just kinda struck by how much time has moved through me and how much I've grown and changed in that twelve-year gap.

You know, how the moments have seized me, and here I am now.

I was thinking how twelve years is both simultaneously a long period of time and, like, a blink, you know? Uh, I was like, "Jesus, twelve years has passed," and, you know, "Where will I be in another twelve? What moments lie waiting for me in my future?" And it was like I was just thinking about what all I had kinda done in twelve years because around the time that movie first came out, I had literally just moved from Indiana to be in Texas.

It was the first time I had ever moved away from my home state and been away from family, kind of embarking on a whole new adventure, just like Mason does at the end of the movie.

And at that time, I got hired by Apple, and I stayed there for over twelve years.

And it was actually really weird, uncanny timing because I had turned in my Apple work laptop the day that I went to the screening, and I had quit, like, a w- the, the week before.

And so Like I had, that movie existed in that whole chapter, that, that after Apple chapter of my life, and I was turning it in, getting ready to start something new and go on another adventure.

And, uh, during that 12-year span, I had gotten into like a serious relationship that had lasted five years but wasn't any good, and I eventually found the will to kind of break the chains on that and get free.

I got a dog out of happenstance from that bad ler- long-term relationship, and that dog, Lucy, has been my best friend ever since.

I went vegan, which was the right move for me, and I've, I've still been locked in it this whole time.

I started writing film reviews as a member of the independent press, which I no longer do, and I started this podcast, which is still going strong 'cause you're listening to it.

I stopped drinking.

It's been over eight years now since I put that down, and it's interesting to watch this movie again 'cause I probably had a pitcher of beer sitting there watching this nearly three-hour movie when it first came out, and now here I am totally sober, not had a drink in eight years.

And there's all this alcohol that just kind of gravitates throughout Boyhood.

There's all this, you know, landmines of potential alcoholism and, and bad, bad vibes, um, [laughs] that are, that are lurking because of substance abuse.

I started taking care of myself more and working out more routi- routinely and running long distances and to the point where it's gotten normal for me to just go out on a Sunday, every Sunday, and, and hit a half-marathon distance just for fun because that's how fucking weird I am.

I was set up blindly with the beautiful woman that I would eventually marry.

We just got hitched last year, and I acquired two more dogs out of that blessed union.

I went to Japan, where I got bit by the S- Sofubi bug, and I've been collecting soft vinyl toys ever since.

I got into sculpting and making casts of my sculptures out of resin.

Um, I've written a few short pieces and made some decent headway on some novels that I've been juggling.