Matthew Quotes

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.” Blam.

You need the noise of your friends in space.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

I've always lived by the ocean and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

Im as conservative as they come.

I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

Humour is completed by an audience.

If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.

I believe there's a strong difference between something being good and something being successful. The successful thing is something we have no control over.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

Hate is more interesting than love.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.