Richard Linklater: The average filmgoer may not know his name, and none of his movies to date have really lit up the box office, but he is arguably one of the great auteurs of American cinema. Boyhood and the Before trilogy are his most heralded masterworks and deservedly so, but he also gave us the indelible debut of Matthew McConaughey (and his catchphrase) in Dazed and Confused, one of the best studio comedies of this century in School of Rock, and of course, the arthouse classics Slacker and Waking Life, both of which continue to influence wannabe philosophers like myself to this day....

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