According to Ethan Hawke, Before Sunrise is about what might be; Before Sunset is about what could or should be; and Before Midnight is about what is.

根据男主角伊桑·霍克所言，《爱在黎明破晓前》是对未来的期许；《爱在日落黄昏时》是对过去的遗憾；而《爱在午夜降临前》则是既定的当下。

Hey, Waco, Texas! Terrible tragedy. What does Ethan Hawke know?

得州韦科 太悲剧了 伊森·霍克知道什么？

What does Ethan Hawke know? We'll find out tonight. Rain.

伊森·霍克知道什么 今晚见分晓 下雨。

And I will say too, this year the thing that was really gratifying was a lot of people I came up with, Mark Garofalo and Ethan Hawke and Wes Anderson.

我也要说 今年让我满足的事情是我合作的许多人 马克·加罗法洛 伊桑·霍克 韦斯·安德森。

It's also worth noting that Linklater included a female co-writer and allows Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy to rewrite the script, to create an equal balance between male and female.

值得一提的是，林克莱特也请了一位女性作家一同书写剧本，同时也允许两位主演修改剧本，希望借以此在两性关系中达到一种平衡。

Each film is set nine years after the last and shows the main characters Jesse and Celine played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in a different phase of their lives.

每一部续集的时间都设置在前作的九年之后，两位主角——由伊桑·霍克和朱莉·德尔佩饰演的杰西和塞琳娜在每部电影里也都处于人生的不同阶段。