Asked if art must carry more offensive themes to contend with the "dark times" we live in, Hawke spoke up in defense of “some of the great offensive art," giving examples such as “great punk music or some early Brecht plays that are punk in their sensibility.”

Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater spoke about taking risks in art at the Berlin Film Festival press conference for their new film "Blue Moon."

Right now, people don’t think they’ll make any money off it so it doesn’t get made.” In Blue Moon, Hawke plays Lorenz Hart, the former creative partner of Richard Rodgers. Struggling with alcoholism and depression,