“A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.” KnowsIdeasFightingActorsKnow HowCrazyBritishAccentsDrive Me CrazyAlways Fighting Author:Ethan Hawke
“I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.” KnowsIdeasEndsWholeRealityDiesSidesBornHorseStorytellingGalaxyWagons Author:Ethan Hawke
“People are conditioned to just you know, like, you know we're like little birdies going to the bird feeder you know, or the little cows going to the salt lick. We just like what we've seen before.” PeopleKnowsLittlesLike YouBirdCowsSalt 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
“I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.” KnowsHardCareTogetherFeltRolesClearCuttingTake CareFarmsChores Author:Ethan Hawke
“It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantHardStarsDifficultCoupleMarriedAmbitiousMovie StarBeing Married Author:Ethan Hawke
“When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.” PeopleKnowsFeelsHas BeensCertainLevelsQualityAudienceGroupsPressureBarsSunsetSunriseSmall GroupsBefore SunsetBefore Sunrise Author:Ethan Hawke
“As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenFeelsRealYoungAddMagazinesYoung ManAbout YourselfPhony Author:Ethan Hawke
“I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.” IfsKnowsWishFameDaughterJust One Author:Ethan Hawke
“You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?” KnowsYearsNextRooms Author:Ethan Hawke
“I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.” KnowsFeelsRealWonderImaginaryImaginary Friend Author:Ethan Hawke
“I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.” KnowsWantGivingFeelsHeartChildrenDifferentHardKidsActorsGrowsKnow HowGoneGrowing UpGrowingMy HeartAnd LoveMeetingsCaughtProfessionSpotsEnjoyedDifferent ThingsSensitivityCaught UpWrong ThingsWatsonEmmaChild Actors 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
“I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanRealCountryStoriesFictionClassMilitaryExampleIdentityDramaExcitingScience FictionWho We AreCopExploringReal YouGood ScienceFiction Stories Author:Ethan Hawke
“How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?” KnowsWayWantHumansDoeRealStoriesGuyHumanityElementsFunctionScaryGhostMake SenseGenreStayingMidnightThat GuyStay TrueSinisterGhost Stories 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 don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.” ThinkingKnowsWantNeedsYoungParentAdviceSmartYoung WomenWatsonEmmaGreat Parents Author:Ethan Hawke
“I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.” IfsKnowsLongImportantMatterUsedThreeHoursHappenedMinutesSubjectsUsed To BeEpicSubject Matter Author:Ethan Hawke
“Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.” PeopleKnowsTryingArtRealCreativeBalanceFindingsWoodsDemonDocumentariesCreative PeopleCreative ArtMatchedRoughness 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
