125 Quotes by John Hawkes

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

She should have 60kg. She's won every big race once, if not twice and look how close she is at the weights to Railings (54kg), who has only won a Metropolitan and a Caulfield Cup. I can't believe how well she's got in.

My education was constantly interrupted. I moved around a great deal, had no real sense of home, except for the New England landscape.

I didn't worry about any criticism of the horse, I was happy enough with his earlier runs. He was set for the Derby and he peaked on the right day. It was a pleasing result.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.

He was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since.

He's come a long way in a short time.

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.