Ethan Hawke

I don't know anything about golf, but I hear the same thing that's true with golf.

Young people are often great actors.

It's adolescence and life that makes it harder to get back to that childlike place.

You know?

And so I think I've even been talking to my wife a lot about I want to start trying to take piano lessons just to do something I've never done.

Because I know it rattles my brain and makes my brain see things differently.

It's true.

And I believe in that entirely, but I also believe that to master a craft, you have to apprentice three or four.

I'm an actor.

and I'm going to die an actor, and this is what I'm going to do.

And I have met older actors who are amazing, who I know I'm not as good as, and it kind of thrills me.

It thrills me.

There's little nuances of conversation that I don't quite understand yet, but I know that they do, and I know that they're right, and I want to understand more deeply.

And I just feel that

I don't know, I lost my train of thought about that.

My computer just shut down.

I know I want to excel at this one craft, but I know that when I direct something, when I write something, if I make a graphic novel, a documentary...

I'm learning about things that are adjacent to my specialty.

And by doing that, when I go to set and I'm talking to a writer, I know how hard he worked on the script.

I'm not going to willy-nilly change his lines because I'm not in the mood or I don't like the way my hair looks or something like that.