Ethan Hawke

And I can't remember a time I just ran with the character like I did with this one.

I'm tired after all the questions you've asked me.

I love your show, and I love NPR, and I really appreciate what you guys do, and I'm just thrilled to be on your program.

So thanks for having me.

Good tips.

Of course you did.

It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival earlier in the fall, where he received the actor tribute.

That film is expected to be released sometime next year.

There's an after-party at Sardi's, where theater people would go on opening night and wait until the reviews came out.

Marco Polo's going to be a show about joy, but a hard-earned joy, an unsentimental joy.

It's too easy for me.

We can do something so much more emotionally complicated.

Well, first off, I guess the emotional complexity.

I mean, there's the verbiage.

Larry Hart is at this opening night party, and it's kind of like he feels if he ever stops talking, he's going to be shot and killed.

And so he just cannot stop talking.

So there was the amount of text I had to learn.

There's the complication...

He's incredibly... What is it?

It's called the correlation of opposites.