Ethan Hawke

Peter Weir had made Dead Poets Society, and that's what rehearsal is supposed to be like.

That's what the set is supposed to be like.

That's how you're supposed to talk to other people.

I didn't know my mentor was a card-carrying, awesome human being, and I was having unrealistic expectations about other people on their path.

They haven't done all that Peter's done.

They don't know it all.

And I just, it would anger me that they weren't,

And then if you can get in kind of a more open mind, then you can really listen to people and absorb where they're at in their journey.

And you're not going to change them.

This idea that, especially in a film shoot, you're not going to change the way they think.

You've got to try to do your thing, lead by example, and try to let them not negatively impact you, but maybe you can be open and learn something from them.

And Evan, it happens so often that it's funny.

Like I take my son out to teach him how to shoot, right?

First thing, you just blast it right out of the air.

Second one, blast it right out of the air.

You know, you teach somebody to shoot a bow or something.

First air they fly.

Hits the target.

Then they don't hit the target again.

You know, you start thinking too much.