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Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

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Ethan Hawke
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: November 6
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Austin
Texas
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Directing is like putting together a collage.
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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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I did this movie right after it about the life of Chet Baker. It's called Born to Be Blue. In that situation, there's a real clear character you're drawing on. It's a real person. It's really exciting and interesting to do the research to figure out how to make that a nuanced, three-dimensional human being.
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One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
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The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.
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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.
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I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.
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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.
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
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Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.
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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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One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.
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Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.
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But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.
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We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.
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And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.
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It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.
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I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.
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If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.
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Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.
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