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Study after study bears him out. In one of De Waal's experiments at Atlanta's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, for example, pairs of capuchin monkeys (the species favored by organ grinders) have to cooperate in dragging a heavy tray so they can get the food on it. They...
What also makes Bears a Linklater film is the naturalness of most of the actors. "He gets these honest performances out of these kids," says the film's co-writer Glenn Ficarra, "not this Broadway, arms-akimbo stuff." Linklater casts people whose personality already matches the part and lets them...
The only mistake Linklater thinks he made was allowing a video-game trailer stocked with junk food on the set. The kids, he says, "were all putting on weight." Unlike his local friend, reclusive writer-director Terrence Malick, Linklater doesn't think moviemaking is some big Sisyphean chore to fret...
"That he can thrive in the independent and the studio world is pretty amazing," says Greg Kinnear, who plays an uptight opposing coach in Bears. "He's capable of understanding how to deliver what studios want and still keep a personal voice."
To wit, Linklater says he would be willing to do an action movie. Or a sequel to School of Rock, or a third installment of Before Sunrise, perhaps the lowest-grossing movie ever to spur a sequel. "We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from...