125 Quotes by John Hawkes

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

It was always planned for the Epsom to be his third run back, ... He's ready but he needs luck.

It's all experience. He's still learning. The more experience he gets, the better he'll be,

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

It's ridiculous, it's crippling the industry. Owners are suffering, they are losing interest. It's so frustrating.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

Once I started to write prose, I certainly did not envy the poets. I've mocked poets and poetry ever since I began writing fiction.

In my earliest childhood, we seemed to move back and forth between New York City and Connecticut until I was about eight or ten years old.