Ethan Hawke Quotes

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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• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Realize

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • She
  • Food
  • Early

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Body

• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Reason
  • Saying
  • Nonsense

• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Space
  • Comfort

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Walk

• Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Friends
  • Me

• I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Real

• I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Future
  • Day
  • Journey

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • House
  • Parents
  • Years

• Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern world, trying to ground the movie tonally into something that was a step toward real-world, at least to the degree you can do that in a superhero movie, that's still the tonal universe that we're playing in 'Civil War.'

  

  Joe Russo
  • World
  • Real
  • Trying

• 3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Movie
  • 3D
  • Commercializing

• Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Will

• Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Why
  • Friends
  • High

• I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Operating