Ethan Hawke

It's omnipresent in our awareness.

And I think that acting is...

Dead Poets 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.

Yeah.

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

Well, it's arresting for anybody.

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

I feel it very powerfully.