List of Matthew Modine Quotes

You Hope And Pray That You'll Get Involved With A Director That You Understand And Who Has The Same Sensibility As You Do And Knows How To Push You And Bring Out The Best In You.

If You Take 2001: A Space Odyssey As An Example Of Somebody Who Creates A New Language In Film By What He Was Able To Accomplish With Art Direction, Photography, Lighting, Etc., It Is Still A Gold Standard For Science Fiction.

It Was The Baseball Fantasy Of A Lifetime - To Be Able To Sit On The Bench With All Those Professional Athletes. I Got To Take My Son Along Because I Wasn't Sure I Would Be Able To Play With Them.

So The Thing That's Beautiful About The Rolleiflex Is That I Open The Camera Up From The Top And Put My Face In And That The Camera's All About Composition And All About Light.

There's A Discipline. When You Take Someone's Portrait, You Don't Have To Take 50 Photographs, Just Find That One So That When You Release The Shutter, That's The Image That You Took.

And If I Was Going To Go There – The Only Person You Can Really Compare Batman To, Of Those Characters, Would Be Iron Man, Another Rich Guy Who Has The Ability To Make Fantastic Toys – So If You Want To Take Batman And Iron Man And Put Them In A Battle, That’s An Interesting Battle. But If You Want To Take Christian Bale And Robert Downey Jr. And Put Them In A Ufc Fighting Cage, Christian Bale Will – To Quote Full Metal Jacket – Tear Robert Downey Jr.’s Head Off And Sh-t Down His Neck.

I Always Thought That It Was Kind Of Silly That A Baseball Card Could Be Worth So Much Money.

Everything Is So Convenient In New York.

I Played Little League And In High School. I Played More Over The Years Whenever There Was A Pick-up Game... Usually Softball.

Fifteen Dollar Too Beaucoup. Five Dollars Each... Five Dollars Is All My Mom Allows Me To Spend.

For Example, Michael Mann's Film Collateral - There Is Certain Kinds Of Stories That Lend Themselves To Digital Photography. Some Things Are Very Raw Stories That Digital Photography Kind Of Lends Itself To.

They Don't Have The News Media Set Up In Africa That We Do In The United States, Where Televisions Are So Accessible And Newspapers And Magazines Are Able To Educate People.