A 36 year old Ethan Hawke talks about his career as an actor from "Explorers" (1985) and “Dead Poets Society” (1989) through "Reality Bites" (1994), "Before Sunrise" (1995), “Gattaca” (1997), “Great Expectations” (1998), “Hamlet” (2000), Training Day (2001), "Before Sunset" (2004), "Assault on Precinct 13" (2005) and 'Lord of War (2005). He describes his collaborations with Peter Weir, Richard Linklater, Andrew Niccol, Alfonso Cuarón and Michael Almereyda, his wariness of fame at a young age, the effect of the loss of River Phoenix, the traps of typecasting, the terror of talk shows, how Denzel Washington eats actors for breakfast, Dylan Thomas, and why he writes and directs.