Ethan Hawke Quotes
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At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.
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If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.
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Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.
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It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.
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Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.
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Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.
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I've very rarely worked with somebody that had such a clear idea of what Alejandro Amenábar wanted to do and what he wanted to achieve. The guy is incredibly prepared. He was clearly making a movie for himself and his own dream. I just tried to be a part of that dream. It's a rare opportunity.
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Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the script is good and I met with Robert and we seemed simpatico and we developed. But I had a real passion for that role and that brought me deep into that film 'cause I got the sense that Robert Budreau was going to really let me be creative inside this part.
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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
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Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.
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The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.
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Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.
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Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.
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If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.
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Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.
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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?
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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.
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One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
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In truth, the world is a complicated place.
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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.
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It just makes sense to remember gratitude and the place that gratitude should have in your life, and that none of us are owed these wonderful experiences, and we should always make the best of them.
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The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.
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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.
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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.