BAFTA nominated actor, Ethan Hawke, has compared award ceremonies to going to a prom and described how being invited helps his life to "make sense".
With a Golden Globe nomination already under his belt, Hawke is also in the running for a best actor BAFTA for his role in Boyhood.
Speaking to Sky News' Entertainment Week he said: "It's like the prom or something, you think you’re going to be invited to a dance, it always feels good."
He added: "I try to get very Zen about it and think, 'what they are really doing is celebrating Boyhood, the movie, and if Boyhood matters then movies matter and then my whole life makes sense because I've dedicated my life to this stupid profession’."
The 44-year-old has been in the film industry since he was a teenager, coming to prominence in the 1989 film Dead Poet's Society alongside the late Robin Williams.
"I feel incredibly grateful to still be here," he admits. "It's a hard profession to survive in and you don't really know that when you are younger, it seems so exciting."
Boyhood, which was filmed over the course of 12 years, has been nominated for five BAFTAs including best film and best director.
Hawke revealed the project could easily have fallen apart at any time because none of the cast or crew signed any contracts.
"Twelve years is so long we actually didn't have any contracts, it's illegal to sign someone up for anything more seven years, so if I wanted to, I could have walked away and so could everybody. The whole thing was some act of faith."
Hawke said that when director Richard Linklater came to him with the idea, he knew he had to take on the role of Mason Snr.
"I am being offered a job that no actor has been offered before and there's a part of your brain that gets turned by like that, by walking new ground."
Although Hawke says he "never doubted" the project, he has been surprised at how the public have taken to it.
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