It's Better To Be A Fake Somebody

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.

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.

The Values That I Have Are The Values I Was Raised With, From Where I'm From, Which Is A Middle-class Place. So That Informs Everything About Me, My Politics And All That Stuff. I Mean, Politically, I Vote Against My Own Self-interest At Every Election. I Actively Ask These People To Raise My Taxes.

I Started Really Young, Like 12 Or 13, And Then I Started Doing School Plays. We Had A Really Good Drama Department, So The Kind Of Drama-geek Stigma Wasn't Really There In My High School.

It's Intuitive In Terms Of When I Read A Piece Of Material Or I Hear About A Project. I'm A Writer, So I've Written Movies. I've Read At This Point Thousands And Thousands And Thousands Of Screenplays. So If Something Gets Me, Then I Don't Ignore That.