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Sat 05 May 2007Focusing on the bigger pictureMaterial outside the mainstream is what has always interested 'Fast Food Nation' producer Jeremy Thomas, he tells Michael DwyerRichard Linklater, the Texan director of Fast Food Nation, says that when a movie is credited as a Jeremy Thomas production, "you know it means this is probably going to be something different". Linklater's new movie is the 38th on which Thomas has been producer or executive producer in a career marked by independence and imagination. To describe his productions as "something different" is to understate their maverick nature.