“For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want to keep everything. But I'm not one of those directors who falls in love with the stuff they've done. Already when I'm doing my first cut, I'm willing to cut out everything that is necessary.” ThinkingWantFirstsDoneFallThreeStuffHoursCuttingWillingDirectorsDirectFalling In Love Author:Alejandro Amenabar
“My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.” MindCoursesImpressionMovies In General Author:Alejandro Amenabar
“I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.” TryingHumansLooksI CanStoriesDramaAlways Trying 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“The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan?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
“I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.” LastsFoundInterestingPeriodsScaryVery InterestingRegression 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
“It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.” TryingMomentsShowsForceCausesInterestingRight NowNewsHappeningsPolicePolice ForceFerguson 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