Ethan Hawke

But it's like all these elements of what creates hypnosis.

If you were, if we're talking about the violin, there are ways to practice the violin.

I'm not going to make somebody a virtuoso, but I can, if I'm an expert violin teacher, help you be better.

And I think the same is true for acting.

Acting is an art form.

It's beautiful.

It's some weird collage of where performance and writing and...

All these elements, music, it's all a part of it.

And when it's happening, it's all effortless.

And there's a lot of work you can do to inch it to being easier and to inch your scene partner to being easier.

And there are ways that they can help you and there's ways that they can ruin it.

They can break the dream.

But when it's good, it is like diving into a dream.

And it's a feeling that I got for the first time when I was 18 years old, acting in Dead Poets Society.

And it is a feeling.

It was seconds long.

I mean, it was not much, but a feeling of disappearing.

And that's the irony I always feel about acting is that people think about actors and they see these pictures on the red carpet or something and they think that's what acting is.

What it really is, it's a life that's completely antithetical to that of trying to disappear.

It feels like the celebration of the self, the celebration of the personality.