Patricia Arquette has described getting involved with Boyhood as a 'no-brainer'.
Patricia Arquette
Arquette teamed up with director Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke and spent twelve years working on the project, which follows a young boy and his family from early childhood through to his teenage years.
Arquette was drawn to the concept of the movie and says it was an easy decision to get involved.
Speaking to Collider, the actress said: "Boyhood was just a no-brainer. I wanted to work with both of those guys and the concept was so beautiful.
"The way [Richard Linklater; the director] talked about making the movie, stripping away all the conventional ways of storytelling - it's funny because this show's the opposite. They're so good at this way of telling stories.
"Rick was talking about breaking all the rules of movies and stripping all the ways that you usually tell stories, and let love and life and flaws and mistakes and time and all these things take the lead."
And the decision to take on the role of the mother in the film is one that has worked out well for the actress as she won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for her performance last month.
This was the first Oscar win for Arquette, who dominated the awards circuit with wins at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Baftas.
Going forward, we are going to see Arquette mix television and movies from with CSI: Cyber and The Wannabe. Movie The Wannabe will see her team up with director and writer Nick Sandow. She has also been linked to film Woman on a Train.
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