"In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff."
-Ethan Hawke
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"I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi."
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"My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality."
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"If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies."
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"I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters."
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"Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on."
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"There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker."
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"I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen."
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"What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older."
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"I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot."
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"I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays."
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