Matthew Quotes

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school.

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

Only human, after all.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode

Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere

I swear to you on any kind of sacred whateverthefuck you favor: if I live through this I will absolutely start taking your advice." "That'll look nice on your headstone.

Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.

Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.