Ethan Hawke Quotes

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

May the Force be with J.J. I think he'll reinvent 'Star Wars,' like he did with 'Star Trek.'

My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.

There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.

I know 'Valerian' didn't do very well in America, but I think it's because of the lack of knowledge of these graphic novels which came out in the mid-60s.

Working with Gale Anne Hurd has been a dream of mine. I mean, I grew up watching 'Terminator' and 'Aliens' and watching Sigourney Weaver just slay!

I love James Cameron. I love what he does.

I think if you're watching 'Dumb and Dumber,' I don't know whether you need to buy the Blu-ray of a comedy or something like that. But if you're watching 'Event Horizon,' 'Death Race,' 'Alien vs. Predator' I mean, I think these movies are definitely enhanced by the Blu-ray experience.

I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.

I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.

I love the action movies. I would love to be part of those.

At the time that George Lucas made the first 'Star Wars,' space was always presented as pristine. And he wanted to show that they may be fabulous vehicles, but they've been driven some miles. And, without anyone thinking about it or thinking that was going to help make it a pop hit, everybody believed in that world, because it looked inhabited.

We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.

I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.

I love movies, so getting to be in the conversation and meet some of my heroes has been so fun. It's just the most fun thing ever.

3D is obviously not as suited to drama and romantic comedies. But for what I do, I felt that 3D was a very, very appropriate technology.

When someone says 'comic book movies', what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.

The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, 'Blade Runner.'

Con Air' and all these movies were what made me want to get into film and if 'Crimson Tide' is on the television, that's me for the next two hours. I'm not leaving.

I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic, and I'm not a comic person - it's just not my thing, so I'm not looking in that direction - but ambitious films on a big scale I'm very interested in looking at.

I have grown up watching franchise-based movies like 'Star Wars' and read 'Amar Chitra Katha' and had aspired to do cinema like that.

I was really young, like nine, when I saw the first 'Terminator', and I was amazed by the world they created, and everything James Cameron did.