Ethan Hawke

Pick whoever yours are.

Muhammad Ali.

I mean, there's so many amazing people that you can say like, wow, life was not always a picnic for them.

How did they handle it?

And then you cannot be too upset when life's not a picnic for you.

You can just ask yourself, how did you handle it?

Yeah, like I'll tell you, I don't know why, it just flashed through my brain.

When I was making this film, Chelsea Wallace, you have to understand, like, digital video, it just came out.

This movie, The Celebration, this Danish film, amazing movie, Thomas Vinterberg directed it.

And it just kind of changed the rules.

The camera was cheap.

Like, movies were always so expensive to make.

And now you could just...

And I was like, all right, I made this movie for $100,000 in 2000.

And I was like, all right, we're just going to play with this new camera.

And I talked Chris Christopherson into being it.

He was my hero.

And he agreed to do it.

I couldn't believe it, you know.

He shows up on the set, and I had this elaborate shot I had planned.