“The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.”

—  Ethan Hawke

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/dec/08/culture.features1 (2000-12-08)
2000–2004

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