Ethan Hawke
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Podcast Appearances
And, you know, when we were thinking about what restrictions we were going to do, we went on this walk with this really good friend of mine.
Richard Linklater is an amazing person, and they tried to โ my daughters hit him up of what he thinks.
All I know is that the most important thing is to be your own best friend and that this is a slight obstacle to it, that boredom, boredom and sitting still with yourself โ
is a membrane you kind of have to pass through.
And if you can make best friends with yourself, then your best friend is always with you.
And so that's been my solution too, is to say, all right, let's all, there aren't limitations, but let's all sit down and look at, I'll show you how much I looked at it.
How much did you look at it?
Do you feel, is it helping?
Because what you're a thousand percent right about is it's part of the social structure of their lives.
And to isolate them from it is to...
You can't pretend that doesn't have negative side effects.
Getting tough is important.
I think one of the things kids are experiencing now is what I experienced with the first blush of celebrity.
I mean, you want to talk about negative comments, try being an actor.
Everybody's got an opinion about what a fake you are, what a phony you are.