Richard Linklater is a truly original voice in the landscape of American cinema on which he has left his eclectic mark with films like Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Before Sunrise, Waking Life and last year’s Golden Globe winning, 12-years in the making, Boyhood (it won best Drama, Best Director and Best Actress Comedy for Patricia Arquette). He now returns to semiautobiographical coming of age material with Everybody Wants Some, a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, which picks up that movie’s high school antics with a tale of freshman UT baseball recruit Jake (Blake Jenner) as he navigates the novel landscape of friends, girls, sports and girls in the days preceding the start of classes. We asked the director about his inspirations for the ensemble comedy and about revisiting the eighties.