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There was a very high value placed on the arts in my family. None of them were artists, but they loved books and movies and music. I grew up with people who believed that at its best art was a religious-like calling. I mean, my stepfather thought Bob Dylan was the greatest religious figure of the 20th century - and in a way he's right, you know. They were also people who didn't define success in financial terms and I think that's had a very big influence on me.

{Ethan Hawke - interview by John Preston (2010)}