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 Community College in the fall of 1984 to study film. Since his early 20s, Linklater has been a vegetarian. In 2015, he explained the dietary lifestyle in a "Boyhood-"style documentary for PETA. Linklater founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 together with his frequent collaborator Lee Daniel. One of the mentors for the Film Society was former New York City critic for the "SoHo Weekly News" George Morris who had relocated to Austin and taught film there. Morris had previously written articles on Leo McCarey, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, and Douglas Sirk. For several years, Linklater made many short films