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I think we'll write a lot more in the future just because it didn't turn out to be as time-consuming as we thought, back in the day, we didn't have deadlines because nobody cared what we were doing, no one was waiting for the script, we were unemployed, so we literally had nothing else to do. And now we can build the time, it's a little more structured, right ? Like, alright, let's write from 10 to 2, you know, because we can drop the kids off and then we can pick the kids up. We actually have lives now which is nice, finally.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
During a recent interview, I recalled a discussion I had with my daughter where I attempted to contextualize for her the progress that has been made -- though by no means completed -- since I was growing up in Boston and, as a child, heard the word' f * g' used on the street before I knew what it even referred to.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have never called anyone' f **** t' in my personal life and this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening. I do not use slurs of any kind, i have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining Matt Damon' one of the good guys'. And given that open hostility against the LGBTQ + community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
During a recent interview, I recalled a discussion I had with my daughter where I attempted to contextualize for her the progress that has been made – though by no means completed – since I was growing up in Boston and, as a child, heard the word ‘f*g’ used on the street before I knew what it even referred to, i explained that that word was used constantly and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a movie of mine as recently as 2003; she in turn expressed incredulity that there could ever have been a time where that word was used unthinkingly.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table. I said,' Come on, that's a joke ! I say it in the movie' Stuck on You !''.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The word that my daughter calls the' f-slur for a homosexual' was commonly used when I was Matt Damon, with a different application, i made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table. I said,' Come on, that's a joke ! I say it in the movie' Stuck on You !''.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm just so happy for him. He's the best, he deserves every happiness in the world. I’m glad for both of them.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I love them both. I hope it’s true. That would be awesome, it just feels good to get it out and people are starting to see it, and that's exciting.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I can't think of any place I'd rather want to be in a 2km radius of, it feels a little like a fairy tale here.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The brakes were the weakest part of the car back then, so what these guys were doing is nuts, going 230 miles an hour and not knowing whether or not you could stop the car. It's a kind of a special breed of person to do that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm usually Matt Damon, i'm a keg-half-full kind of guy, but what I've seen from the monsters on this committee makes me want to puke... and not from beer !
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don’t want to further anybody’s pain, i ’m really sorry.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We’re going to have to figure — you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right ? both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they should n’t be conflated, right ?
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I do believe there’s a spectrum of behavior. There’s a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape orchild molestation, right ? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they should n’t be conflated.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
TheLouis C.K. thing, I don’t know all the details. I don’t do deep dives on this, but I did see his statement, which kind of, which [ was ] arresting to me. When he came out and said, ‘ I did this. I did these things. These women are all telling the truth. ’ And I just remember thinking, ‘ Well, that’s the sign of somebody who — well, we can work with that. ’ Like, when I ’m raising my kids, this constant personal responsibility is as important as anything else they learn before they go off in the world.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
When Matt Damon see Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken taking a picture putting Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken hands on that woman’s flak jacket and mugging for the camera … that is just like a terrible joke, and it’s not funny. It’s wrong, and he should n’t have done that, but when you talk about Harvey Weinstein and what Harvey Weinstein’s accused of, there are no pictures of that. Harvey Weinstein knew Harvey Weinstein was up to no good. There’s no witnesses. There’s no pictures. There’s no braggadocio. That stuff happened secretly, because it was criminal and he knew it. So they don’t belong in the same category.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
People get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
You guys did it here in one fell swoop and I wish that could happen in my country, but it’s such a personal issue for people that we cannot talk about it sensibly, people get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Idris Elba makes everything Idris Elba's in better and Idris Elba would make that franchise better, idris Elba's awesome.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
'Milk' was another hard one because I was excited ... and I would have had the chance to do scenes with Sean Penn, they pushed the schedule and it ran into the slot for 'Green Zone.' Steven Soderbergh’s mantra is, ‘The movie gets the right person; the right actor gets the part,' but I was like, ‘S--t, no. That was my part’. But when I saw 'Milk,' Josh Brolin was so f---ing good that I knew Soderbergh was right.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Having to say no to 'Avatar' was tough because I particularly wanted to work with James Cameron, and still do, because he’s fantastic, he knew he was the star of that movie and that everyone was going to go see it anyway. When he said, ‘Look, I’m offering it to you, but if you say no, the movie doesn’t need you,' I remember thinking, ‘Oh God, not only do I have to say no because of scheduling, but he’s going to make a star out of some guy who’s going to start taking jobs from me later.'.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's literally been 18 years since I've been here doing this. With a little more context, I know how lucky I am and how lucky I am to do this for a living, when people go see movies, it's just ?? it's kind of rare. I've made a lot of movies that people just didn't go see.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The rest of the cast had already wrapped and it was just Ridley and I, he got the sound from their side of the scene and he piped it into my helmet, but didn’t tell me he was going to do it. So suddenly I heard the voices of my friends and it struck me I hadn’t heard another voice for years. I’d been communicating by email. these people were coming to save me, these people who had sacrificed a year of their lives for me. And I just wept. It wasn’t planned or forced, it was about him creating an environment. And it was the dream of an actor because you just have to show up and be relaxed.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Sending people to Mars and returning them safely is the challenge of a generation, journey to Mars will forever change our history books, rewriting what we know about the red planet and expanding the human presence deeper into the solar system.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
A lot of us spent our adult lives thinking about two hours and three acts. (We're) now migrating to television going, 'OK, how do I tell this story over 20 hours?' the movie that was my bread and butter for years, the $25 million to $50 million character drama, is just gone. They just don't make that anymore.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When we're talking about diversity, you do it in the casting of the film not in the casting of the show, hoo. Wow. OK.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My comments were part of a much broader conversation about diversity in Hollywood and the fundamental nature of 'Project Greenlight' which did not make the show, i am sorry that they offended some people, but, at the very least, I am happy that they started a conversation about diversity in Hollywood. That is an ongoing conversation that we all should be having.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The world doesn't give up on him and it becomes a priority for everybody to go help. And by extension what does that mean about all of our lives?
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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