Ethan Hawke

I would love to see what that looked like at 55.

And I would love to see the artist that he would be and the art he would have made.

i can't believe that phil's gone um half of why i act sometimes is to impress those two men that i was friends with you know i mean i i think about them all the time when i'm performing um because they were the gauge by which i judged myself and and they still are

It has so much, and you're not even mentioning the before trilogy, which we shot over 18 years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nine years, yeah.

I think it's part of the hook of Linkletter and I's friendship, as we both have an obsession with it, think about it all the time.

It's omnipresent in our awareness.

And I think that acting is...

Dead Poets Society came out and I started being sent scripts.

I'm 18, 19 years old and now I'll be sent a script and it says, Billy, age 19, skateboarding down the street.

And I always think, oh, that's my part.

It's just the way I read script.

It takes me a while to realize, oh, Billy's father, age 55, gruff and weathered around the edges.

I'm like, oh, that's me.

I'm forced always to look at that.

I remember watching the first screening of Boyhood with Patricia Arquette and I were sitting next to each other.

And she leans over to me and says, wow, they're growing up and we're aging.

And it's funny, I don't know where that turn happens where we stop thinking of ourselves as growing.

But acting forces you to be aware of time.