Ethan Hawke

I was like, it was like sunrise, and I'd been up all night, and it was New York, and I was about 19 or something, and I was just thinking about...

Who had gone through this that I actually admire when I look at them and I admire?

And Jeff Bridges had starred in The Last Picture Show, which was one of my favorite movies, and he was amazing in it.

And he just slowly got better and better and better and better.

And I was like, all right, so it can be done.

You know, he's got an amazing wife.

He's really super into Buddhism.

I started getting like, what is it?

He's really into photography.

Like he takes, I mean, I don't know him either, right?

So I'm just, I'm talking like a fan here.

I don't know these people.

But I watched him from afar.

I was like, okay, this race can be won.

And I've always thought, I remember I was so happy he won the Academy Award for True Grit, I guess it was.

And I was like, damn, what a long, slow burn he had and just keeps getting better and more interesting.

He comes out with these weird little books I love and I read them.

He writes books?

Yeah, he has this book with his, like, he has a mentor in Buddhism.

And they kind of wrote a book together about the Tao of the Dude or something like that.