Ethan Hawke

And I started watching movies with them and talking about movies with them and seeing the light in their eyes.

And we'd go to set, and there was Robin Williams.

We had Peter Weir, who had just directed Witness, one of my favorite movies of all time at that point.

And he was a master.

I mean, he was not a lightweight human being.

He was a heavyweight human being.

And he would lead rehearsals and he would talk about acting and performance in a way that I hadn't... Well, you know, I heard people talk about it that way when we were doing St.

Joan, when I was doing the... Like, he talked about it like we were making art and like we were on a mission beyond success or failure.

And it was an invitation to a lifestyle, a life commitment.

And what I didn't realize at the time, that's what that movie's about too.

So the movie itself is a guided meditation on carpe diem.

It's a meditation on gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

This is the kind of stuff that I was getting inundated with in rehearsal.

And so that was, I didn't, I wouldn't have told you that on the day I wrapped Dead Poets Society that my life had changed.

But looking back, it had.

I read every interview she does for exactly that reason.

I have, it's so difficult.

I tell parents all the time, like,

Children acting is a wonderful thing.