Matthew McConaughey Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Weekend, Film, Time To Kill

• Directors like William Friedkin (Killer Joe), Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike) and Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) got in touch with me and wanted me to be part of their films. That was a whole new chapter for me. I didn’t chase any of those films and it made me think that I was right to take a chance, say no to the kind of thing I had grown tired of doing, and wait until something good came around. And it did.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Tired, Thinking, Waiting

  "All-american? no more". IN Magazine Interview, inmagazine.ca. December 23, 2013.

• I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Independent, Thinking, Eccentric

• One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, 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 McConaughey

  Years, Special, Events

  "Matthew McConaughey, ‘Magic Mike’ Star, On ‘The Year Of McConaughey’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

• I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

  Matthew McConaughey

  School, Track, Justice

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gone, Things I Love, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Land, Diaries, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Feelings, Done, Lasts

• I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Done, Rehearsal, Film

  "Matthew McConaughey Interview THE LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 15, 2011.

• Each of the films, whether it’s Magic Mike or Dallas Buyers Club, was a challenge for me. I had to dig deeper. Also, my decision to shake things up came after my first child was born. I had taken nearly two years off and I thought that I would enjoy my time as a dad and wait until something interesting came along.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Dad, Children, Taken

  "All-american? no more". IN Magazine Interview, inmagazine.ca. December 23, 2013.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin