Ethan Hawke reveals he writes all of his lines by hand

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood star Ethan Hawke shared that he is always meticulous in his preparation for a role, and explained that it helps him to be "extremely critical of the writer, in a positive way".

"I hand-write everything like it’s my journal. I’m not memorising from a typewritten page; I don’t want irrelevant stage directions to be part of it. I try to write it from memory, and then I look and see what I got wrong,” Hawke told variety.com.

"It also helps me be extremely critical of the writer, in a positive way. 'It doesn’t seem like I would use that word four times. I think this is a better word.' Then I record it, and I listen, and I see what I got wrong.”

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"Take Billie Eilish’s Birds of a Feather. I know all the lyrics to that song. I don’t know how I know all the lyrics to that song. I absorbed it at coffee shops and on the car radio, and it’s in me now."

Hawke is convinced that his approach makes a lot of logical sense, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The movie star said: "If you have a really big speech — Jon Voight taught me this — you unlace your shoe. And you have to do the speech lacing your shoe. If I was talking, lacing my shoe, it would be no problem. If I’m trying to remember, then it’s difficult to do."

Meanwhile, the actor previously claimed that "greed" runs the movie business.

The actor acknowledges that the movie industry is "designed to make money" - but Ethan admires actors and actresses who are willing to take financial risks.