Ethan Hawke
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And what I didn't realize at the time, that's what that movie's about too.
So the movie itself is a guided meditation on carpe diem.
It's a meditation on gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
This is the kind of stuff that I was getting inundated with in rehearsal.
And so that was, I didn't, I wouldn't have told you that on the day I wrapped Dead Poets Society that my life had changed.
But looking back, it had.
I read every interview she does for exactly that reason.
I have, it's so difficult.
I tell parents all the time, like,
Children acting is a wonderful thing.
Put them in the school play.
Sing in the church choir.
But to be a professional actor at a young age is...
It's dangerous in extremely insidious ways that are very, very hard to perceive when it's happening.
That's a great way to put it.