Ethan Hawke

But now I know when it's not happening.

And it doesn't mean I can make it happen, but at least an awareness that it's not happening is a great starting place to go, why is it not happening?

Right.

Something smells.

Something smells, like Phil would say.

He is an astonishing... I mean, it's like...

Yes.

The short answer to your question is it was.

We would be doing ride arounds, you know, in the back of these cop cars, watching these arrests or talking to some of these people who really lived the life that we were doing.

And they would say something really funny, you know, and I would just see Denzel like glance at me.

And I realized, oh, shit, that just went in the computer.

And then it would come out, you know, in a scene two months later.

That line that that guy said.

Exactly.

It would come out.

It was a great script.

I don't want to... David Ayer wrote the script.

It's a phenomenal script.

I mean, when I read that script...

wanted that part so badly uh denzel's one of my favorite actors he is probably my favorite actor um i think you know malcolm x and raging bull are two is towering maybe nicholson one flew the cuckoo's nest like live is yeah like the three great performances of of my lifetime um and