Ethan Hawke Quotes
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The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have.
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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.
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Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.
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But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.
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The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.
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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.
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When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.
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In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.
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With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.
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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.
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I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks.
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If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.
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One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.
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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.
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It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.
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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?
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I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.
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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.
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There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.
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I have had so many bad auditions.
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I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.
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You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?
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I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.
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Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.