My favorite place is the Rothko Chapel. It is the Citizen Kane of chapels - a different experience every time. Sometimes transcendent, sometimes foreboding, often exhilarating, occationally tediuous, each experience is a confluence of the natural light, the other visitors -- if any -- and you own mood in the moment. That one constant: total absorption into the dark, imposing Rothko canbases. What a combination of art and architecture! I try to visit every time I'm in Houston -- it's a habit a got into in the eighties.

Linklater is a director and screenwriter whose movies include Dazed and Confused and the Before trilogy. Hi latest film, Boyhood, was released in July. He lives in Austin.