292 Quotes by Ethan Hawke

I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.

With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.

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

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.