Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and a Tony Award. Hawke has directed two feature films, three Off-Broadway plays, and a documentary, and wrote the novels The Hottest Stateand Ash Wednesday...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth6 November 1970
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
successful vanity self
When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.
auditions
I have had so many bad auditions.
thinking people helping
I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.
editing editors ideas
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.
smarter
I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
sleep kids house
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
cutting together roles
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.
ideas editing want
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.
jobs real stories
'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.
lying choices have-faith
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.
falling-in-love people want
Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?
inspiration opportunity giving
If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.
important moments finite
Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
knowing life-is finite
There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.