Ethan Hawke

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. ”

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? ”

I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful. ”

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. ”

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious. ”