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We all know the actor Ethan Hawke, star of films like Gattaca, Dead Poet’s Society, and Training Day, but have you met director, screenwriter, novelist, and philanthropist Ethan Hawke? With an energy that can’t be hushed and a curiosity that won’t quit, Hawke is a creative tornado.
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ETHAN HAWKE :
Ethan Hawke is an American actor, novelist, screenwriter, and director. Hawke received Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Supporting Actor nominations for his work in Antoine Fuqua's "Training Day," opposite Denzel Washington. Hawke most recently appeared in Robert Budreau’s “Born to Be Blue,” for which he received rave reviews out of the Toronto Film Festival for his depiction of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.
In 1996, Hawke wrote his first novel, The Hottest State, published by Little Brown and now in its nineteenth printing. In 2002, his second novel, Ash Wednesday, was published by Knopf and was chosen for Bloomsbury's contemporary classics series. Additionally, Hawke's 2016 graphic novel, "Indeh," with illustrator Greg Ruth, captures the narrative of two nations at war who strive to find peace and forgiveness in a time of great upheaval.
At the age of twenty-one, Hawke founded the Malaparte Theater Co., which remained open for more than five years giving young artists a home to develop their craft. The next year, in 1992, Hawke made his Broadway debut in "The Seagull." Additionally, he has appeared in "Henry IV" alongside Richard Easton on Broadway; "Buried Child" (Steppenwolf); "Hurlyburly," for which he earned a Lucille Lortel Award Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor and Drama League Award Nomination for Distinguished Performance (The New Group); Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia," for which he was honored with a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Performance (Lincoln Center); the inaugural season of The Bridge Project's double billings of "The Cherry Orchard" and "A Winter's Tale," which garnered Hawke a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Old Vic); and "Blood From A Stone" (The New Group) which earned him a 2011 Obie Award for Performance. In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind," for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play as well as recognition in the New York Times and The New Yorker top ten lists of the leading theatre productions in 2010.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Ethan Hawke: When I first started trying to write - because I came on writing as an actor and you realize very quickly that there’s a big difference between being ambiguous and being vague. And being vague is out of focus, blurry, oh yeah everything’s kind of true. In being ambiguous is a little bit more than a Zen comb, you know, you’re ringing a bell towards a larger truth. And you’re guiding an audience to think for themselves rather than dictating an answer. That to me is ambiguity at its finest. For example when I worked on Boyhood with Richard Linklater there was a large component and I have no other word for it than what I’ve read about in jazz. The beauty of jazz music is that there’s no plan. There’s a plan. There’s an architecture. Let’s take something obvious like my favorite things, right. John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things. If people know one jazz thing often they’ll know that one. And he takes this famous song, da, da, da, da, da, right. And they all start riffing on it and the musicians start riffing on it and they find a new melody inside it.
And it changes and it changes. And then mysteriously comes back around again and spontaneity mixed with discipline and intelligence it evolves into something you cannot plan that is more sophisticated and more interesting than something the intellectual mind can plan. When you’re really being creative at your best you’ve used your discipline to open up your subconscious. You know, Bob Dylan has a great quote where he says, you know, I didn’t write that man. When somebody says you don’t have an idea for a song. Mama’s in the basement mixing up medicine. I’m on the pavement - that’s not like oh I got an idea for a song. Let me write the Subterranean Homesick Blues, right. It doesn’t work like that. It works like you’ve got something to say and then it’s an antenna that goes up, r...
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This is maybe one of the most underrated actors from these modern times. He can literally speak to you through the camera and he reaches you with his message. Amazing.
@whatsuptrends2936
7 ай бұрын
I don't get a thing bro
@edu.monstrik
6 ай бұрын
@@whatsuptrends2936 so sad ☹️
The best music I've ever written comes from jams and what I hear in my head. I love watching him struggle to describe what he's saying, because in reality, what he's saying is hard to put into words. In hindsight, it's hard to think about the steps you took to create a piece of art. When you have a general goal which you wish to end up at, and throw that goal into the backseat or put it in your subconscious per se, the creation process naturally works toward the goal, or perhaps somewhere better.
i see the disciplined skilled spontaneity in drawings, paintings, and even in basketball players.
Wow. I wasn't expecting that, especially from a very handsome and popular Hollywood celebrity. I had no idea about the depth of Ethan Hawke's creativity & wisdom. I'm going to add this video to my Rewatch playlist. He articulated so well the process of the artist, and a playbook (unintended pun) for life. Thank you, Big Think and Ethan.
@elainemarie9470
7 жыл бұрын
That thumbnail pic, though. Looks like the model has quite the nosebleed. Or a PSA about domestic violence.
@wsdante
7 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more. An excellent, accessible insight into a creative process.
Wow. This helped me more than any other video Ive ever seen. Truly. Thanks Ethan!!
Holy shit. I had no idea Ethan was this down to earth.
I bumped into Mr. Hawke in a Goodwill store in New York about 18 years ago and he was so polite. Then a few moments later we had one of those double excuse-me-excuse-me moments and we both laughed. His getup in this video made me think of this. Cool guy with smarts.
@psychicbink4492
3 жыл бұрын
That's awesome!
@MarcellinaMoon
Жыл бұрын
The fact that he was in a goodwill store even after being in big films is exactly how I imagine he would be.
Almost didn't watch this because I didn't realise how awesome Ethan Hawke is. I mean, I like him in movies but most actors are so disappointing when they're themselves.
I love seeing people in the comments surprised by his depth and awareness. I’ve loved Ethan since I was a young girl and his first movie, the explorers and have followed his career. He is a great actor and brilliant writer as well and seems so thoughtful and down to earth. Love this so much!
the process when one is creating is such a trip & you never know when you hit those high notes that motivate you too keep going & let the inspiration flow
This was incredibly insightful and useful.
I now respect this man even more.
him and linklater are joined at the hip..loved the before sereis
This guy can legit start a cult during a monologue. I'll be his first joiner.
I have so much more respect for this guy now. I was kinda bummed when the vid ended haha
More please!
This guy is something else. ❤️
It almost sounds to me as if Ethan Hawke is describing what I understand to be intuition. One's intuition is a storehouse of incredible wisdom and knowledge. However, information provided by the intuition has to be rationally scrutinised by the intellect before action is taken. Intuition, like the intellect is fallible. They just become less fallible when they align.
@internet_strange
7 ай бұрын
no i think you are making it bit complicated than its intended. Its more to do with not thinking about the act, instead , doing the act which can be called as Flow. In such state you have addressed what the intellectual mind requires without thinking on it
great video thank you Ethan
Shared. Good man
I liked his Bob Dylan impression.
@itzzzsss
7 жыл бұрын
is that a mushroom for avatar??
@TapeLeg
7 жыл бұрын
No, it's a dick and butt.
@itzzzsss
7 жыл бұрын
Hot Dog 😮
So true!
Thank you. Dope ideas. Stillness is the only freedom.
Beautiful video!
good one
it's called FLOW
Wow wow wow Helpful and so many levels thank you
@miriamminkoff
3 жыл бұрын
You are the real deal Ethan honest wise & Generative
1:25 👌👌👌
I love this man and his movie
I love this, it reminds me of jordan peterson talking about why we like watching movies. we are drawn to some stories because there's a truth to them, even if they don't seem so at the surface.
This, is why I like you so much Ethan.
Shared
Love it
Brilliant.
Funny story .. I just started watching Lincoln Lawyer and Trevor Elliot resembles Ethan Hawke (who I crushed on hard when I was younger) and so he’s been on my mind the last couple of days. Then this video appears on my feed today 🤣 I swear reality is stranger than fiction 🙃
Ethan Hawke!!!❤️❤️💖💖💖💖💖💖 Love him so much!!!❤️💖💖💖💖💖
Everything he says is true. It's refreshing to listen to him.
Mindblowing...
holy sh... one of the best talks
Yes we all have it ! ☺️
wow this is so important. these are the stories that need to be told. or whatever.
There is wisdom in his words. The wording could be a bit better though (for communicating to others)
dead poets society rocked. definitely feeling ya. especially when you speak about how its learning to channel self. to channel what you have learned. lots of zen meditators experience oneness and then assume a gnostic position. its wierd. from seeking to understand the nature of self they arrive at a position of clarity. this clarity then becomes blinding and they assume they are tapping into something deeper in the universe where they should not. at least not given an agnostic viewpoint. they have a deeper understanding of their own self that is true and being unable to seperate self from the experience of self they go and start making claims that have no root in reality. fear of death is that powerful im guessing. it becomes the wish fulfilling gem empty and illusory. there is that which surpasses the wish fulfilling gem. that is the determination to achieve and you know full well the value of that determination based on what you have shared.
He's good.
Incredibly wise guy...
Yes. Correct.
I wonder what he would say to the philosophers that infer that 'the self' is an illusion. I mostly agree with his ideas on creativity, but I don't believe we all have a 'core-self' from birth.
@GoatzAreEpic
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah me neither, I think he means the self that is generated over time by all the debris that is thrown at us that eventually shapes our egos?
@jonc3519
7 жыл бұрын
mark jonkman You don't need the concept of the self to make his inferences.
from my best friend's problem, the problem is the game, he always gamble everything, and lost everytime. idk
Thank you my Brother 💚 I love you forever 🌈
I just hope he is using it legally :P
@sammyscrap
7 жыл бұрын
Hahaha so hypocritical coming from you Kenny, been cheesing at all lately? LOL
But where does the subconscious comes from. Cue David Chalmers.
I'd think this is more of the preconscious than the subconscious. I don't think the subconscious has that much effect unless we are dreaming.
@theman2017inc
3 жыл бұрын
Is that both night dreams as well as daydreams, Ryan???
“You’re channeling yourself” agh, si.
Think mechanic guy is so intelligent
i'll have what he's having!
@FlyingSaucerEyez
7 жыл бұрын
sebastien longo People with cold feet cannot move forward. People with narrow minds cannot move side to side. Which do you have? Perhaps both.
@pogmog
7 жыл бұрын
I would guess it was just a morning coffee.
i like how he explain ‘ambiguous ‘ n ’vogue’, master wugui is being ambiguous, my pretentious coworker is being vogue
@jayenneB
2 жыл бұрын
Ethan meant vague, not vogue.
@louieafk8424
2 жыл бұрын
@@jayenneB typo. thank you for spotting it.
Huh? This went over my head or I didn't have enough coffee this morning
For ad much as i can stand here and claim the notion that in my imaginative creativity connected this clip to my present moment (which it has), it is even more gigantically epic from Ethan’s point of view. . .7 years ago from this/my present moment. Today. 2022: W w w w h h h h o o o o o o o o a a h! 🤯
THANKS FOR NOT PUTTING HORRIBLE EPIC MUSIC OVER THIS. I'M NOT YELLING YOU'RE YELLING.
That was a little bit ambiguous .
boyhood was really vague though
All these creative intellectual (rich fucking) people like Jazz... and make comparisons.
you must be empty like a vessel to realize that you are full.
Fill it up regular. Oh sorry thought I was getting gas.
I subbed because Penn Jillette. The quality of the speakers lately has sucked.
OK Ethan settle down
You wanna be creative or you wanna go home
Thanks a lot. Now I lost THE GAME
He kind of just babbled and barely sad anything about the subject just told stories.
@stlkngyomom
7 жыл бұрын
Artists are mainly"right brained"(intuitive)...Try TED:meditation,lucid dreaming,fasting,banned;Waking Life,Manifesting the Mind,MAPS,Living Matrix,binaural beats,tummo,tulpa,lung gom pa,yoga nidra,natural law,science of lucid dreaming.
@SockPupet
7 жыл бұрын
The title is garbled nonsense... go figure...
get over your self ethan.....
@DanielBoonelight
5 жыл бұрын
he was asked by other people, to talk about his process. and he did exactly that, fluidly, elucidating with story, in a way that has an overflow of grateful comments on here. looks like you're the only one bitter about it, you noncontributing zero.