Ethan Hawke

I mean, that's what I think he feels.

The world is so stupid in the way that it works.

imagines power and intelligence and grace and you know tall and handsome tall equating power tall equating authority it doesn't beauty is as beauty does we all know this um it was as a male i think it's even more different because i remember there's there was a man who was really helping me with the height and how to achieve it we were kind of trying to do it with old school stagecraft and

He had built a floor that he could put his feet through and then wear his shoes on his shin, so he really appeared a foot shorter than he did.

And his wife, who they'd been together for decades, came to him and was looking at him.

She said, wow, if you were this tall, I wouldn't love you.

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

about 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 guts.

Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Well, first off, I think 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.