Ethan Hawke admits that he has an obsession with time.

"Acting forces you to be aware of time," he says. "The stories I gravitate to, particularly in the films with [director] Richard Linklater , ... I often think Father Time is the main character of all the films we've done together."

Hawke was only 13 when he made his first film, Explorers. He became a star at 18 with Dead Poets Society. More than 30 years later, he's still acting, except now when he gets a script he forgets he's no longer a young guy.

"I'll be sent a script and it says, 'Billy, age 19, skateboarding down the street,' and I think, 'Oh that's my part,'" Hawke says. "It takes me a while to realize, 'Oh, Billy's father, age 55, gruff and weathered around the edges. ... Oh, that's me."

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