“It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.” KindMightActionDifficultUniqueAction Movie Author:Ethan Hawke
“All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.” KindStuffPayTaxesGood ThingsLuxuryTabloids Author:Ethan Hawke
“My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.” TryingKindI CanStoriesPastArtistGoalInterestingActingEmotionalContemporarySomething NewRelevantGood StoryLearn From The Past Author:Ethan Hawke
“Whenever actors tout off about doing their own stunts, it's always ... they're so protective of you that I always know these stunt guys are so good [and] they're never going to put you in danger. But it's fun to do something kind of exciting, even something as simple as driving 70 through a tunnel with five motorcycles ... it sounds simple, but it's actually really nerve-wracking.” KnowsKindGuyActorsFunSoundSimpleFiveDangerExcitingDrivingNervesProtectiveTunnelsMotorcycle Author:Ethan Hawke
“Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindChildrenSometimesReasonPlayEnjoyWatchesFantasyWorstStrangeProtectMy ChildrenNightmareStrange ThingsWorst Fear Author:Ethan Hawke
“'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.” WantFeelsKindRealStoriesJobsActorsReal LifeFinestBrooklynLife Story Author:Ethan Hawke
“The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.” KindBigsZoneSci FiFreakTwilightTwilight ZoneTrippy Author:Ethan Hawke
“I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.” KindActionFictionScience FictionSci FiSci Fi Movie Author:Ethan Hawke
“I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.” PeopleFeelsYearsKindTurnsActorsActingShapesAdmire Author:Ethan Hawke
“One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.” WantTryingKindI CanDifferentCan DoComedyWrittenWesternDifferent KindsObituaryGreat Comedy Author:Ethan Hawke
“My first car was kind of sad. My first car was when my parents had completely worn out their Toyota Corolla that they had for 16 years or something. They gave me, for my 19th birthday, this really ancient Toyota. So that was my first car. And I loved it. I thought it was amazing, and I drove it cross-country. It was not aesthetically appealing in any way. It was it fast. It did not handle well, but it lasted forever. I drove cross-country and back, and then I gave it to my sister, and she drove it for another 10 years.” WayYearsFirstsWellsKindCountryParentForeverCarCrossesAncientHandleMy SisterWornWorn OutToyota Author:Ethan Hawke
“In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.” ThinkingTryingKindFactsBigsLife IsDifficultOriginalsPathetic Author:Ethan Hawke
“There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.” IfsKindMadeIdeasUsedRoomsEasierCamerasUsed To BeMake SenseEditorsEditingMistakenDeliberateCheaper 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
“It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.” WayTryingLooksKindPersonsIdeasHelpingHappensWantedFeltSoundImaginationCreativeClearStrangeDirectorsNormalUniquePaintBoxesBarsMake It HappenAmenOutside The BoxLoving PersonUnique ExperiencesHelping Someone Author:Ethan Hawke
“Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor's job is to go down the rabbit hole.” KnowsKindPlayJobsActorsPopsTricksHolesSense Of HumorRabbitsRabbit Holes Author:Ethan Hawke
“When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.” KindDreamUniverseClearBarsAmen Author:Ethan Hawke
“Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's [Amenabar] hands.” KindHandsWantedSituationStudyPeriodsDrugAddictionHolesObsessedComing OutRabbitsDrug AddictionDrug AddictBakersRegressionRabbit HolesChet Baker Author:Ethan Hawke
“One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.” KindJobsSituationHardestHardest Thing Author:Ethan Hawke
“It's a really unique job that is a little schizophrenic and you have to kind of do it with a sense of humor.The trick is figuring out what each job is asking of you and what it's not asking of you.” KindLittlesJobsUniqueAskingTricksSense Of HumorSchizophrenic Author:Ethan Hawke
“The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.” KnowsKindMeanLongCountryActionTermInterestingMilitaryWeaponsImpactKillingStrikesLong TermAfghanistanTroopsReally InterestingDronesMilitary Action Author:Ethan Hawke
“Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian.” PeopleKnowsWantKindDifferentRealCharacterDreamGuyAsksDirectorsCaptureDifferent KindsDocumentaries Author:Ethan Hawke
“I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.” KindFacesSpeakStepsTestsForgivingScreensCirclesNervousKeep GoingWireForgive YourselfMics 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 met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.” PeopleKnowsKindPersonsHumorInspirationStruggleMetsInsight Author:Ethan Hawke
“To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.” KindPay Author:Ethan Hawke
“The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.” MenWantTryingKindProblemLife IsFatherProcess Author:Ethan Hawke
“In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.” KindSelfStuffPerfectionHollywoodObsessionOur SocietyNeurosisLoathingSelf Loathing Author:Ethan Hawke
