John Hawkes Men Quotations

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

But he's got a long way to go to get to the Derby. It's entirely up to him how he copes along the way as to how far he'll go this spring. He ran only once last season because he was still immature and is not mentally there yet. But he's doing the right things and I hope he continues to go ahead. If he can't cope, I'll turn him out.

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.