I think that I don't believe that my initial interest in acting came from a desire to express myself for some real artistic impulse. I think it came from a simple desire to be noticed, to be liked. But yeah, I went to an acting class. I really did love it. And my life has been, sometimes i say acting chose me. You know, I felt caught in a river almost early in my career with that poet society. That movie could have been a bomb and two weeks later, I'd been on a boat chasing my friend Nick, emulating Jack London,. you know.
From the profound experience of making “Dead Poets Society” to the “Before” trilogy and his marvelous new book, Ethan Hawke discusses a life spent celebrating creativity in its many forms.