Matthew McConaughey Quotes

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

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• Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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  • Brand
  • Remarkable

• Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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  • Everything

• After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

  

  Kat Dennings
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• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
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  • Real

• First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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  • Think
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• The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
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• Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.

  

  Laura Dern
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• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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  • Home
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• I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Movie
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• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

  Zach Galligan
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• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
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  • Career
  • Action

• In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

  Adam Beach
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• 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'

  

  Faizon Love
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  • You

• The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

  

  Jeff Fisher
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• As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Mother
  • House
  • Friend

• If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it's working, the logic is to keep putting the same product out there. And I think that really bumps up against the creative process - and moviemaking, generally. And I think that our company really pushes against that.

  

  Jason Blum
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• To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.

  

  Jon Watts
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• Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Community

• I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
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