Ethan Hawke

And they still are.

It has so much, and you're not even mentioning the before trilogy, which we shot over 18 years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nine years, yeah.

I think it's part of the hook of Linkletter and I's friendship, is we both have a...

obsession with it think about it all the time all the time um it's omnipresent in our awareness and i think that acting dead poet society came out and i started being sent scripts i'm 18 19 years old and now i'll be sent a script and it says billy age 19 skateboarding down the street and i always think oh that's my part it's just the way i read script it takes me a while to realize oh

Billy's father, age 55, gruff and weathered around the edges.

I'm like, oh, that's me.

I'm forced always to look at that.

I remember watching the first screening of Boyhood with Patricia Arquette and I were sitting next to each other.

Yeah.

And she leans over to me and says, wow, they're growing up and we're aging.

And it's funny, I don't know where that turn happens where we stop thinking of ourselves as growing.

But acting forces you to be aware of time.

Cinema naturally does it.

The stories I gravitate to, particularly in the films with Richard Linklater, seem to be, I often think, Father Time is the main character of all the films we've done together.

Well, you're just hitting me with some real lightweight questions.

Yeah, you're welcome.

Well, it's arresting for anybody.

You know, I think when you get over the age of 50, it is arresting.