How Ethan Hawke Found the Sweet Spot

Ethan Hawke strolls in for our meeting in a small, crowded café in Brooklyn 15 minutes early. He lives nearby with his wife of almost 20 years, Ryan, and two children, and has come straight from a parent-teacher conference. (Hawke has four kids, between 14 and 27, two from his marriage to Uma Thurman.) “When you first have kids you don’t realize how impermanent it is,” he says. “I’m trying to not miss anything.”