Ethan Hawke

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.

You mentioned River, and that was an extremely complex and upsetting thing that happened in my early 20s, his passing.

And then middle age brings its own demons, which happened to my friend Phil.

I think part of

My collaboration with Rick and part of why I love working with Richard Linklater is he has so much joy in his life.

And he didn't, when I was young and becoming friends with him, he was one of the first artists I met who really didn't see self-destruction as a romantic well to draw from.

He had so much joy and love of life.

But I do enjoy playing these parts because I do understand it.

I grew up with so many men of the theater who were in so much pain, and they were some of the most ferociously intelligent and kind and good people that were full of so much self-loathing.