After 12 years of filming “Boyhood” and a year promoting it, director Richard Linklater is finding it hard to fathom saying goodbye to a project that he calls deeply personal in its reflections of the modern American family. Linklater told Reuters, “This film and the way we shot it for so long, I don’t think it even feels like it’s over, and it won’t maybe until we quit all being together.” Up for six Oscars on Feb. 22 and a front runner for the best picture top prize, “Boyhood” has been lauded for doing what has never before been done in cinema – filming the story of a boy as he grows into a man, using the same cast over 12 years. Linklater added, “You can’t make a film like this and expect it to be so widely embraced. We feel very fortunate that audiences and critics have appreciated what went into it and what it’s about.”