Ethan Hawke
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Podcast Appearances
And some of us turn green.
And River was very sensitive, extremely sensitive, and it's part of his genius.
I don't know, does that make sense to you what I'm trying to communicate?
And some of us get second chances, and some of us, our DNA is hardwired to protect ourselves, and some people don't have those guardrails.
And I don't understand it, and I know that the answer is you have to know yourself.
And yes, to your question, was it a warning?
Of course it was a warning.
And I sometimes think a lot of it is accident, and I...
I remember when we were 23, I felt that we had lived, and now here I am, and I've lived twice as long as River.
River didn't get to be a dad, and River didn't get to have the experiences of the rollercoaster ride of the ups and downs of a profession.
I almost feel sadder about his death now.
because I would love to see him.
I'd love to see what he thinks now.
He was such a political young man, and he was such an idealist.
I would love to see what that looked like at 55.
And I would love to see the artist that he would be and the art he would have made.
I can't believe that Phil's gone.
Half of why I act sometimes is to impress those two men that I was friends with.
You know, I mean, I think about them all the time when I'm performing because they were the gauge by which I judged myself.