Patricia Arquette $20 million budget, making the film a moderate financial success. Arquette's next film, "Tiptoes", was released straight-to-DVD in the United States, despite a screening at the Sundance Film Festival. After the humdrum reception of "Tiptoes", Arquette did not appear in another film until 2006's "Fast Food Nation", directed by Richard Linklater. During this three years, she was largely working on "Boyhood;" it was released eight years later in July 2014. "Fast Food Nation" marked her second collaboration with Linklater; it is based on the bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name by Eric Schlosser. "Fast Food Nation" received mixed
Richard Linklater (where he also played baseball), until dropping out to work on an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He frequently read novels on the rig and, upon returning to land, developed a love of film through repeated visits to a repertory theater in Houston. At this point, Linklater realized he wanted to be a filmmaker. He used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing equipment, and moved to Austin, Texas. He was influenced by Martin Scorsese, Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. He enrolled in Austin