Matthew Quotes

Securing distribution is always a battle. And to get a film released is a pretty special accomplishment.

I'm passionate about stories that have humanity, compassion and humor.

Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.

My advice on-set is to make every day better than last one. Change is good.

Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old.

"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc.

Everybody has secrets and some are deeper and darker than others. I think if we peered within the psyche of another we would be all of those things and so very much more.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.

Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.

I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?

In the morning I get out of bed, I brush my teeth, I wash my face, I get dressed in the clothes I like best. I want to be good to myself.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened.

I may be a little old-fashioned, but I actually believe that if you live and work in our house and you work on our payroll and you take oaths, then integrity matters in elections.

If Hillary Clinton wins the race, she will win it with the most diverse coalition that anybody's ever been elected by in presidential history.

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

Maine election law specifies that anyone who is qualified to access the voter file must keep it confidential. And that is directory language. Making the list available is discretionary under the law.

There is nothing wrong with my mind.

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.