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

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

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