And I haven't had a bad creative experience.

You know, a lot of people like, oh, the studio mess with me, I always got out of it live with my film.

Now, I maybe lost the big war, like they didn't distribute it, or they hated me, or never wanted to work with me again, or, you know, whatever.

I'm Sean Phenese, editor and chief of the ringer, and this is the big picture.

Richard Linklater makes movies about people talking.

Movies like Days in Confused, Before Sunrise, Boyhood.

These people are talking to each other and to themselves, getting out of trouble and right back into it.

And it's happening across very specific periods of time.

The last day of school, a romantic night in Paris, a teenage boy's lifetime.

His new movie is called Last Flag Flying and features one of his go-to setups.

Old friends reuniting, and new ones growing close, and these characters talk a lot.

But it's a little different too, and a little bit more straightforward than usual.

It's about a father, played by Steve Carell, who's reunited with his two buddies, played by Brian Kranson and Lawrence Fishburn.

And they came to know each other during the Vietnam War.

After Carell's character, Sun is killed in the Iraq War in 2003, the trio reunite to transport the body back to his home in New Hampshire.

What happens along the way in the movie is right at the heart of this story.

Linklater and I talked about the passage of time in a career that is now 20 films deep,

how to make all that talking he puts on screen interesting,

and the perilous state of sexual harassment scandals in Hollywood and in the world over.

So without further ado, here's Richard Linklater.

Today's a great day because I'm joined by Richard Linklater.

Sir, thank you for coming in today.

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