You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYYou want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYYou hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYIt’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYSo, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThe best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYWe dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
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