Ethan Hawke Quotes - Page 5

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• If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

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  Tattoo, Different, Uniforms

  "Q&A – Ethan Hawke Calls Brooklyn’s Finest the Kind of Movie That Made Him Become an Actor". "AMC" Interview, www.amc.com.

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• The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

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  Father, Men, Trying

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• The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

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  Messages, Entertainment, Horror

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• I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

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  Fun, Taken, Years

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• I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

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  Father, Thinking, Matter

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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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  New York, School, Talking

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• The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

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  Art, Dying, Trying

  "Toolkit | Meet the Woodstock Film Festival Programmers (In Their Own Words)" by Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

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  Nice, Sunrise, Get Up

  "Ethan Hawke: What I've Learned About Life...and Marriage". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 16, 2013.

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• In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

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  Twenties, Paint, Stills

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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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  New York, Car, Cracks

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• 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.

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  Successful, Vanity, Self

  "Ethan Hawke on Fame: 'The Demons Start to Tempt You'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. January 05, 2010.

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• All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.

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  Luxury, Tabloids, Pay

  "Love that goes with the flow". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 19, 2004.

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• Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.

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  Lying, Dark, Play

  "New Search for the Truth in ‘A Lie’" by Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. January 27, 2010.

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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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  Funny, Love You, People

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• If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

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  Art, Play, Looks

  "Ethan Hawke Talks the Purge, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says About Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.

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  Wall, Gun, Thinking

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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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.

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  Fun, Writing, Gun

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.

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  Children, Thinking, Play

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Acting

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.

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  Emotional, Artist, Past

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

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  Writing, Band, Moments

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• People are conditioned to just you know, like, you know we're like little birdies going to the bird feeder you know, or the little cows going to the salt lick. We just like what we've seen before.

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  People, Bird, Littles

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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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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  Jobs, Mean, Careers

  "'Hamlet's' Ethan Hawke Has More on His Mind Than Movie Stardom". Interview with Robert Dominguez, www.nydailynews.com. May 11, 2000.

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• Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

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  Development, Should, Aspect

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

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  Trying, Adults, Want

  "A Minute With: Ethan Hawke on acting, Selena Gomez and Shakespeare". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. August 28, 2013.

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