Ethan Hawke

And they showed me how it can open up and deepen your life and give you something to live for that's bigger than, you know, your wants and needs and desires.

And it lent itself to the life of artists, the life I pursued very well.

A long-form magazine.

I cry.

I am.

I love it.

I mean, I'll never forget the first time I saw Chinatown or The Long Goodbye or The Big Lebowski, for that matter, or some of the other Philip Marlowe, Bogart novels.

You know, I love all that stuff.

And, you know, one of the things I love about genre films is you can use the genre to be entertaining and you can fill the story up with substance and message and ideas.

But it's still entertaining because you're inside the genre.

I loved this character.

It's been a funny year for me because Blue Moon is probably the most different I've ever pushed myself outside the framework of my own identity.

And then the lowdown is I just relate to Lee.

He's Quixote chasing windmills.

running into propellers.

He's a dreamer and an idealist and self-centered and doesn't see his own blind spots, and he's a moron, and I just completely relate to him.

And he can say the right thing all the time and do the wrong thing all the time, and out of that obviously comes a lot of humor.

I kind of saw Lee as...

A guy who's frozen in 1996 or something.

I'm still wearing the same pants I wore back then.