Ethan Hawke

You know, everybody says it's so great to tell people to follow your dreams.

And it is important to follow your dreams.

But it's also important to be realistic and have a plan and take care of yourself.

And when you say you're going to do something, to do it.

To show up when you're asked to tell the truth.

All these things that...

whenever things would start to go well, I had this person in my life that's very important to me who doesn't place a value on anything superficial.

And when we talked about why it's so hard to meet young people in this profession who make it, what starts to happen, regardless of how good or not good your parents are or something, your circle can get infiltrated with a lot of people trying to make money off you.

And that's dangerous.

because they don't care about you.

Or it's going to be good for you in the next three years, but they don't have your long-term, you know, what is going to be good for the 65-year-old version of you.

Right.

You know, is this... Like you said, yeah, if I could have decided my life, Explorers would have been a huge hit.

It would have been E.T.

big.

And you know what?

I wouldn't be here on this talk show today...

So I don't want to be in charge of my whole life in that way.

Maybe you would, but it would be different.

You'd be coming out of rehab.