#ow

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. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#because #epic #every #gandhi #happened

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#flies #i #kill #know #meat

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#context #doing #elements #going #how

Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that? ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#fall #i #i can #i do #love

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#best work #burn #clint #clint eastwood #doing

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#biggest problem #failure #father #how #i

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#bar #been #before #certain #feel

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#broad #conservative #country #environmental #environmental problems

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#clean #cost #incentives #intelligent #internalized

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#change #coherent #either #forces #future