Linklater is best known for his walk-and-talk Before trilogy, titles like Dazed and Confused and Boyhood, and for his naturalistic filmmaking. Linklater, who was previously at the fest with 2006 sci-fi thriller A Scanner Darkly, said of what Breathless meant to him, as a filmmaker, that “It represented freedom and the notion of the personal film.”

Linklater isn't worried about Trump's proposed tariffs on movies that don't shoot in the U.S.: "That guy changes his mind like 50 times in one day"

Richard Linklater’s Cannes Competition title 'Nouvelle Vague' had its world premiere the Palais this evening and was welcomed with a 11-minute ovation.