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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. (Ethan Hawke)
People love actors. They love reading about them and thinking about their lives. But they also secretly hate them. They think their lives are frivolous and all they do is go to parties, and they don't know real problems... There's something at the root of our love-hate relationship with celebrity that I think has the makings, if you could do it in a really substantive way, of a great modern American novel. View quote
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It's its own form of cinema, it's its own entity. I think Chekhov would like Before Sunset because it's all about nuance. Any decent screen-writing school would throw that script out. There's no beginning, middle and end, it's completely fluid, just chasing the nuance of life, and kind of believing whatever God is lives in this kind of energy that flows between all of us. I kind of live for that, for that chance that you might get another opportunity to be a part of something like that. View quote
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The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit. View quote
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I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious. View quote
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I have had so many bad auditions. View quote
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I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever. View quote
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To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay. View quote
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I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way. (Ethan Hawke)
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character. View quote
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I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut. View quote
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The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak. View quote
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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. View quote
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If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again. View quote
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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special. View quote
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are. View quote
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My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality. (Ethan Hawke)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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'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. View quote
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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. View quote
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