Ethan Hawke

And it was really a heartbreaking experience for him that he really wanted to share with me that confused him deeply.

about how what we associate as sexuality, what we associate with strength.

And it did unlock for me...

I mean, just even all my normal ways of flirting.

I have all these scenes with Margaret Qualley, who's a beautiful young woman.

And she would just giggle at everything I say and pat me on top of the head.

And it was extremely patronizing.

And you had to find a different set of tools to get her attention.

So I don't know that I could speak intelligently about it, but I could feel it in my gut.

Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Humanity experiences this.

I think we see it in public figures and artists because we're in the public more.

Issues of addiction are complicating and destroying so much of society, and so many people are in pain, and these are painkillers.

And I think the artistic community, to be driven to create, usually is motivated by some sensitivity, an extreme sensitivity to...

I don't know.

I have seen it my whole life.

You mentioned River, and that was an extremely complex and upsetting thing that happened in my early 20s, his passing.

And then Middle Age brings its own demons, which happened to my friend Phil.

I think part of

My collaboration with Rick and part of why I love working with Richard Linklater is he has so much joy in his life.