would sit around and watch movies my whole life and then one day i saw a movie called slacker richard linklater directed i want to new york to see it was very rare and characteristic for jersey burbs could read about it in a village voice went up to see it in new york and. this counts as filmmaking i won in a nonna dismissive like this looks like crap conaway but it wasn't about anything when the three act structure nothing exploded there was no pirates no superheroes were in that in those days no die hard in that was the big formula point so what was it it was the fact that these dude's and. texas nowhere's ville texas made this movie on their own that inspired me it emboldened me i was like maybe i can make a movie and nowheres film new jersey now the fact of the matter is it was made in austin texas which is not only the capital of texas from what i understand but also a big arts capital so had i known that there was going to that that austin was a power center for creativity i doubt i ever would have seen slacker and said oh i should make clerks i still would have felt a little bit impotent