Ethan Hawke says Harry Potter and Star Wars movies leave him disappointed that he's 'not a wizard or a Jedi'
By contrast, he says, "Richard Linklater’s movies… remind you that it’s a miracle that we walk on Earth and that we breathe at all."
Ethan Hawke is getting candid about his thoughts on some of Hollywood's biggest franchises, including Star Wars and Harry Potter.
During a master class at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, the actor-director compared the films by frequent collaborator Richard Linklater to those of the aforementioned tentpole movies.
“If you go see Harry Potter or Star Wars or something, which I’ve seen a million times, and I love them, but when they are over, I feel slightly disappointed that I’m not a wizard or not a Jedi,” he joked. “And I walk through my life thinking, 'I wish I were a Jedi.' And when you see a Richard Linklater film, you walk out feeling, ‘Well, I’ve done that. I’ve met a person, I’ve connected with another human being, and that was important, and that was magic.’"