Ethan Hawke: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Ethan Hawke

Actor, director and novelist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Too many things to mention.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

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Mark Gatiss British actor and writer

I was a very lazy child, but I think I’ve made up for it by being a workaholic. I might push some of the work back to my childhood.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2016 source ↗

Ian McEwan British novelist and screenwriter

To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 August 2018 source ↗

Michael Kiwanuka English singer-songwriter

Nothing. Everything happens for a reason.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2019 source ↗

Heather Graham American actress

I spent too many years being hard on myself, like a drill sergeant in my head. I thought that if I was hard on myself, I’d get more results, but I now know that’s not true.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 March 2016 source ↗