Matt Quotes

For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.

Now I'm at the point where I can bring the cursor just about anywhere.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

I'll forget about you long enough to forget why I need to

Staying present and staying myself in the midst of others is important.

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

I would be heavenly if baby you'd just rescue me now

The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

I'm a rule follower. But there is also a part of me, clearly, that doesn't follow them.

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.

I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful.

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

They never taste who always drink.

Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.

People love watching crazy expeditions

I'm convinced people are bored of generic travel

Human beings remember experiences

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want

The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience

I'm curious about the extremes of the world

It's kind of sad that couples don't want to work together, it's like, 'Wow, you really don't like the person you're with?' I'd rather kiss her then some random person I just met

A hole is nothing but what remains around it.

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.