Richard Stuart Linklater is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. His films include the comedies
Slacker (1990) and
Dazed and Confused (1993); the
Before trilogy of romance films:
Before Sunrise (1995),
Before Sunset (2004), and
Before Midnight (2013); the music-themed comedy
School of Rock (2003); the adult animated films
Waking Life (2001),
A Scanner Darkly (2006), and
Apollo 10 1â2: A Space Age Childhood (2022); the coming-of-age drama
Boyhood (2014); and the comedy film
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016).