There’s this idea that a person’s life is like a staircase...

“The air conditioning is broken, and this playwright has never done a play and he’s swearing and jonesing for a cigarette, and the director is pouring with sweat and we’re reading this thing. Sometimes I get in these cynical places—‘Does any of it even matter?’—but here’s this writer who fucking cares and this director who cares. He’s built this underground theater company for 15 years so that we can do this. And these actors are coming in and they’re not simply memorizing their lines, they’re giving us these personalities. And they’re dripping with sweat, too. I get confused sometimes, but every now and then I stumble on something I feel certain about, and that feels very good.”

Ethan Hawke

Corduroy Magazine Issue 8