I love being a hater.

I think it’s important to have standards. Being skeptical isn’t just a hipster hobby, it’s a useful tool — it can keep you safe, sane, and might even land you a job as a journalist.

So when I see my online kin being skeptical of gadgets and tech that I both think and write about on a daily basis, I’m inclined to agree. Making everything wireless was a mistake; Sonic does suck; there are absolutely, positively, too many damn gaming handhelds.

But even a hater has his limits. Sometimes, the world of gadgets deserves a bit of unbridled love. Right now, in my world, that deserving gadget is the Quest 3.

Ethan Hawke is a man of faith.

That’s not to say the beloved actor, author, and filmmaker is devout in a strictly traditional sense. Though Hawke’s mother was Episcopalian and took him to church as a child, she raised him to think about belief in all its manifestations, to internalize the writings of great American playwrights and poets as intently as sermons from local priests.

His great-grandmother wanted him to become a minister. Hawke heeded a different calling. Now 53 and a four-time Oscar nominee, Hawke sees his lifelong dedication to the arts as its own, deeply spiritual form of exploration.

In Wildcat, his fifth feature as a filmmaker, “human creativity is an act of faith,” he tells Inverse in a wide-ranging conversation about career setbacks (including the box-office failure he still loves), directing his daughter, and balancing villainous roles with experimental cinema.