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Richard Linklater Explains “Cheap Hustler” Approach To Indie Film Financing: “You Can’t Fake That”
When it comes to getting indie films made, Richard Linklater lives by the golden rule of "fake it until you make it."
The 5x Oscar nominee recently opened up about the struggles of financing as an indie filmmaker, explaining that they have to “be a cheap hustler” and “have some charm” in order to convince financiers to invest in their work. In Nouvelle Vague, Guillaume Marbeck portrays French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard as he directs his first feature, 1960’s Breathless, in Paris. Featuring the same warm black-and-white ’60s film aesthetic of the seminal source film, Nouvelle Vague is “told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless,” directed by Linklater from a script by Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson and Holly Gent.
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