50. Ethan Hawke (Actor, Author) – The High, Hard Road/Ghosts of the Apache Wars

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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“Whenever we start seeing people as other, we just get lost. There were so many decent cowboys trying to do the right thing. And so many decent First Nation people trying to do the right thing. And there were so many liars, and cheaters, and people trying to get ahead. So many people with short term goals screwing everything up.” After his breakout roles in Dead Poets Society and Reality Bites, actor, director, and author Ethan Hawke has followed his own path as an artist, starting a theater company, writing two novels, acting in decade-spanning film productions directed by Richard Linklater including, most recently the amazing Boyhood. He’s just published his first graphic novel, which he wrote with artist Greg Ruth. It’s called INDEH: A Story of the Apache Wars, and its tells a complex and very human story of relations between the Apaches and the white Americans who ultimately took over their lands. On this week's episode of Think Again - a Big Think Podcast, Ethan Hawke and host Jason Gots discuss fatherhood, perpetual warfare, and the daily struggle between light and dark within every person. It's a raw, intense, sometimes laugh-out-loud conversation that spans continents and decades in under an hour. Surprise discussion clips in this episode: Sam Harris on spirituality, Steven Kotler on Steroids (not literally ON them), and Jerry Kaplan on robot wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.0	Hey there. I'm Jason Gatz and you're listening to Think Again a Big Think podcast.
1:14.3	Since and you're listening to Think Again a Big Think podcast. Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas
1:17.2	from some of the most creative thinkers around.
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1:33.3	Today I'm very, very psyched to be sitting here with actor, director, and author, Ethan
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