Ethan Hawke

But we all get warnings.

And I sometimes...

I think a lot of it is accident, and I wish... I remember when we were 23, I felt that we had lived.

And now here I am.

You know, I'm about to be 55 years old, 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.

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, as we both have an obsession with it, think about it all the time.