Ethan Hawke

It's like, you know when you're a kid and you first look at the stars or the ocean or something and you feel powerfully your own insignificance.

And your intellectual brain would think that that would feel bad.

Oh, if somebody told you, hey, you're insignificant, that feels bad.

But when you look at the stars, it feels great.

Yeah.

And it's the same feeling of, like, why would disappearing feel so good?

I did, when I was young, I did this play with Steve Zahn, great actor.

Have you had Steve on your show?

No.

Oh, he's a genius, and he's so funny.

We were doing a play together, and...

And I would say to him, I said, tonight's show went really good.

Didn't you think it went well?

And he'd go, yeah, I thought it went really well.

And then the next night I'd come back and say, ah, tonight sucked.

Didn't it suck?

He goes, oh, I thought it went really well.

You know, you always think it goes really well.

And he goes, I never remember.

and the truth is he's so zen he's so in the moment what you're talking about when you do comedy or when you do your interviews he is so in he's so present that he honestly doesn't remember and that's the trick because he doesn't have this huge opinion yeah because the opinion gets in your way all the time