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Quotes
As for poker, I've stayed away from
that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get
accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my
money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It
goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to
look back and like the choices you made.
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano,
and I never really played them again.
I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit
on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a
very long time.
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and
over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the
label and keep doing what I am doing.
I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if
it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a
job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down
work.
I want to do is a character-driven porn movie. It's
all going to be about characters, and the porn's gonna grow all out of
the character's and it's going to serve as character development.
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get
bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt
researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and
they'd go home.
It's usually the exact same three things which are,
the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look
for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually
enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.
Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't
been offered a movie in a year. Because The Legend of Bagger Vance had
come out and bombed and All the Pretty Horses had come out and bombed.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain
around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time
success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.
You become the poster child for tabloid magazines and
once you're in their crosshairs, it really does put a stranglehold on
your career because nobody wants to read about you every day in these
magazines and then pay ten bucks to see your movie on a Friday night.
On The Bourne Ultimatum: If you have any ideas for a
script, please, call Universal! We've gone so far from the book. Ludlum
wrote it as a trilogy and we've really kind-of ignored that plot because
it's very Cold War. And so in the updating process we kind-of threw out
most of what he had so we're kind of on our own to find a third one.
Bourne Ultimatum is the third one and I feel like I've given ultimatums
in both the first two!
Some people get into this business and they're so
afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like
clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices.
I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same
way, too. We want to take the big swings.
If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling
you.
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala
events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not
worth enough to risk my private life being public.
I'm not being a monk. I live my life in New York. I
have a girlfriend [Luciana Barroso]. But it's not cost-effective for
paparazzi to follow us. They can get one picture of us walking down the
street.
Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi:
'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow
me.'
I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it.
That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
On The Bourne Ultimatum (2007): We're all signed on in
principle, in the sense that we've all agreed that we want to do it, but
we're not going to do it unless we have a great script. It's ours to
lose at the minute, and, if we do make a third one, we want to make it
as good as the first two. And if we can't do that, then we're going to
have to let it drop".
On The Bourne Ultimatum (2007): If you have any ideas
for a script, please, call Universal! We've gone so far from the book.
Ludlum wrote it as a trilogy and we've really kind-of ignored that plot
because it's very Cold War. And so, in the updating process, we kind-of
threw out most of what he had so we're kind of on our own to find a
third one. Bourne Ultimatum is the third one and I feel like I've given
ultimatums in both the first two!
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