“I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.” IfsMadeSaidFilmLyingChoicesShotsHave Faith Author:Ethan Hawke
“I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.” FilmFiveCuttingIndependentBucksIndependent FilmDiscerning Author:Ethan Hawke
“The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.” WantKindMadeIdeasFilmCertainRoomsEditing Author:Ethan Hawke
“Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.” FeelsTryingWellsDifferentEndsHelpingFilmImaginationFiveDirectorsBrando Author:Ethan Hawke
“And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.” FeelsEndsFilmProcessActingDesignElementsMusic IsFilmmakingFistsPunchingCinematographyBest Film Author:Ethan Hawke
“My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.” DifferentFilmProcessTraining Author:Ethan Hawke
“Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the script is good and I met with Robert and we seemed simpatico and we developed. But I had a real passion for that role and that brought me deep into that film 'cause I got the sense that Robert Budreau was going to really let me be creative inside this part.” YearsRealPlayCharacterFilmPassionFeltCausesRolesCreativeMetsYears AgoLet MeScriptsBe CreativeBakersChet BakerSimpatico Author:Ethan Hawke
“I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.” PeopleTogetherFilmWaitingEnvironmentStrangePhotographyExpectationsExcitedComplainingMediocreGreat Expectations Author:Ethan Hawke
“The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.” TryingArtFilmDyingSellsCelebrateCraftsFilmmakingFinestFestivalsFilm FestivalsWoodstock Author:Ethan Hawke
“Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.” IfsWellsKindMatterSchoolFilmDifficultTalkingNew YorkVampireSupposed To BeGenreDawnOld SchoolVampire MovieThrowback Author:Ethan Hawke
“I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.” YearsAgeFilmFunPathTakenDangerousWalkingPressesRateAgentsFestivalsVeniceCasualtiesFilm Festivals Author:Ethan Hawke
