Ethan Hawke

And she had made this crazy collage and it was combining pictures of her friends from high school and this beautiful watercolor that she did around it.

And she sprinkled glue on it and dropped sparkles on it and put it in a weird wood frame that her mother had given her that she'd like.

And she said, isn't it beautiful, dad?

You would.

Would you ever say that's pretentious?

Of course not.

Of course not.

But the goal, when somebody says the word art to me, I don't hear pretentious.

I hear the solar system.

I hear like human creativity inside of us, man.

It is inside me and it's inside you.

And when I see a great movie or when I hear Jimi Hendrix rip a killer solo, then my whole body vibrates.

Oh, hey, we're alive.

Yes.

You know, when Johnny Cash comes out with a sound you've never heard before, when it's a great rap song, you're like, I got to hear that again.

I feel my heartbeat with that.

That's art.

It's not pretentious.

It's real.

And so I feel that way very strongly, and that makes me want to go to set, and that makes me not care whether the movie makes a billion dollars or makes two cents.