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And the joy of my job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing.

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Ethan Hawke
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: November 6
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Austin
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Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.
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The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.
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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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There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.
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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.
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Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.
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Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.
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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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Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.
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I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.
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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.
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.
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When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.
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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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Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.
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It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.
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I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.
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Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.
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