How Boyhood’s Saddest Moment Came Together

 

"So much of this movie was personal, and I had this image in my head for all these years of what my mom looked like when I said good-bye and went to college. She was just sitting there at a table alone, smoking a cigarette and uncharacteristically quiet. I could tell that she was very emotional, but she didn't say that much. I'd had that image in my head during the 11 years of making this movie, but as we got closer to shooting it, I realized that I needed to flesh it out more with words. People say to me, "Did you have this scripted in advance?" and I say, "No, why would I do that?" We needed to live those 11 years first and experience them, not only in our lives, but let the characters live them, too."
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How Boyhood’s Saddest Moment Came Together -- Vulture