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. – Ethan Hawke
My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I dont even notice it any more. Its just my reality. – Ethan Hawke
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. – Ethan Hawke
If I do three movies in a year, I dont feel like acting ever again. – Ethan Hawke
Right now, if youre interested in being a dramatic actor, theyre not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on. – Ethan Hawke
I dont know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic – a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters. – Ethan Hawke
If youre not a real chameleon of an actor and if youre not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies. – Ethan Hawke
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friends house and staying up late and watching Nosferatu. Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R. – Ethan Hawke
I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm… where youre together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, you take care of this and you know. But its hard. – Ethan Hawke
We live in a funny time. If you dont go corporate, you cant compete. Youre relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that. – Ethan Hawke
I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didnt know why I would struggle to be that kind of person. – Ethan Hawke
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, youre objectifying yourself in some weird way. – Ethan Hawke
Id be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice Ive made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot. – Ethan Hawke
Ive had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. Youve got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you dont cut. – Ethan Hawke
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
It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody elses business. – Ethan Hawke
In New York, youve got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and theyre all on the same subway car. – Ethan Hawke
If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids arent doing well, it doesnt matter how the other elements of my life are. Its kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful. – Ethan Hawke
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. – Ethan Hawke
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. – Ethan Hawke
