Ethan Hawke Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

  Ethan Hawke

  Independent, Cutting, Bucks

• Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the script is good and I met with Robert and we seemed simpatico and we developed. But I had a real passion for that role and that brought me deep into that film 'cause I got the sense that Robert Budreau was going to really let me be creative inside this part.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Passion, Character

  "Ethan Hawke talks 'Regression'". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

• The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Dying, Trying

  "Toolkit | Meet the Woodstock Film Festival Programmers (In Their Own Words)" by Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2011.

• I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.

  Ethan Hawke

  Photography, People, Expectations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

  Ethan Hawke

  New York, School, Talking

• I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Taken, Years

• The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

  Ethan Hawke

  Editing, Ideas, Want

  "Ethan Hawke’s Fifth Elements". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2012.

• Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.

  Ethan Hawke

  Imagination, Trying, Directors

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

• And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

  Ethan Hawke

  Design, Acting, Elements

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

• I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

  Ethan Hawke

  Lying, Choices, Have Faith

• My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.

  Ethan Hawke

  Training, Different, Film

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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