1. QUOTE from:
    Matt Damon eats way into new film role
    View quote in context »
    And he's hoping that he'll be able to get the program in schools as teaching aids. "Because it's great if a history teacher can talk about Frederick Douglass, but if you can show Morgan Freeman reading a passage of Frederick Douglass, that might get kids more engaged in learning about history." The father of three daughters ("fatherhood's great"), Damon has no shortage of projects. Full Article at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Because it's great if a history teacher can talk about Frederick Douglass, but if you can show Morgan Freeman reading a passage of Frederick Douglass, that might get kids more engaged in learning about history.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
All quotes from:
Matt Damon eats way into new film role
  1. Once Steven decided to do this tonal shift and make it a black comedy, he lost total interest in talking to anybody who is really involved because we weren't doing the re-enactment of what happened
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  2. Obviously, the studio wants to do it; so it really looks like it could happen. But we don't want to do it unless we can make a movie that fits in with the other three. We don't want the quality to go down at all, and it's a trickier story than you would think at first glance. Having made three of them. ...
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  3. I haven't had a movie open since 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which was in 2007. So they just ended up getting stacked up. 'Green Zone' was held over till next year. Clint's movie is coming out in December.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  4. After the first take, Steven just walked up and just goes, 'No. Nope,'
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  5. But taking it off was a total pain in the ass. You have to watch what you eat and exercise, and that's no fun.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  6. You do absorb a lot being in the actual places where these things occurred. I remember talking to Melanie Lynskey (who plays Whitacre's wife) about that when we were having the same conversations that they had in the same house and in the same room that they had them. That was a little eerie. And who kn...
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  7. I really haven't had time or pressing need. Once the employment dries up again (he laughs), I'll have to start writing again. Or unless I find a great piece of material that I want to adapt and direct, I'm not writing.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  8. Though we shot in Whitacre's house, and drove his actual cars and said the things verbatim for the most part that he said, we did it tonally in a different way
    Matt Damon – Matt Damon SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  9. I think I'm just drawn to good writing ... The script is terrific, and the characters complicated. And like 'Ripley,' there's a lot going on ... This was a story that ultimately revolved around an unreliable narrator, which in itself I thought was just a great idea. And the way the information was doled...
    Matt Damon – Matt Damon SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago

Recent Photos From The Wire

  1. Stanford's Jeanette Pohlen, right, and Gonzaga's Courtney Vandersloot collide in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, in Stanford, Calif. Stanford won 105-74.
  2. Fans hold a giant Canadian flag before the Montreal Alouettes play the Saskatchewan Roughriders during the 97th CFL Grey Cup football game in Calgary, Alberta, November 29, 2009.
  3. An engaged Chinese couple strike a pose for their wedding photographs at a studio in central Beijing November 27, 2009. China is in the midst of a golden age of weddings, a boon for businesses from photo studios to global platinum miners. Yet nowhere is the economic impact so potentially profound as in the housing market. A flood of newlyweds such as Meng and Fan buying their first homes could help power China's property sales for years, even as some investors fear that prices are already in dangerous bubble territory. Picture taken November 27, 2009.
  4. LONDON - NOVEMBER 29: Jamie Archer performs at the T4 Stars of 2009 at Earls Court Arena on November 29, 2009 in London, England.
  5. MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 29: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN ALL JAPANESE MEDIA UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Shunsuke Nakamura (L) of Espanyol is tackled by Alvaro Dominguez of Atletico Madrid during the La Liga match between Espanyol and Atletico Madrid at the Vicente Calderon Stadium on November 29, 2009 in Madrid, Spain.
  6. LONDON - NOVEMBER 29: Jamie Archer performs at the T4 Stars of 2009 at Earls Court Arena on November 29, 2009 in London, England.
  7. An engaged Chinese couple pose with a teddy bear for their wedding photographs at a studio in central Beijing November 27, 2009. China is in the midst of a golden age of weddings, a boon for businesses from photo studios to global platinum miners. Yet nowhere is the economic impact so potentially profound as in the housing market. A flood of newlyweds such as Meng and Fan buying their first homes could help power China's property sales for years, even as some investors fear that prices are already in dangerous bubble territory. Picture taken November 27, 2009.
  8. LONDON - NOVEMBER 29: Jamie Archer performs at the T4 Stars of 2009 at Earls Court Arena on November 29, 2009 in London, England.
  9. Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Darian Durant runs with the ball against the Montreal Alouettes during the first half of the 97th CFL Grey Cup in Calgary, Alberta, November 29, 2009.
  10. LONDON - NOVEMBER 29: Tom Meighan (R) and Serge Pizzorno of Kasabian perform at the T4 Stars of 2009 at Earls Court Arena on November 29, 2009 in London, England.
  11. LONDON - NOVEMBER 29: Jamie Archer performs at the T4 Stars of 2009 at Earls Court Arena on November 29, 2009 in London, England.
  12. An engaged Chinese couple pose for their wedding photographs dressed in cowboy gear, holding a toy gun and with a rugged 'Wild West' landscape behind them at a studio in central Beijing November 27, 2009. China is in the midst of a golden age of weddings, a boon for businesses from photo studios to global platinum miners. Yet nowhere is the economic impact so potentially profound as in the housing market. A flood of newlyweds such as Meng and Fan buying their first homes could help power China's property sales for years, even as some investors fear that prices are already in dangerous bubble territory. Picture taken November 27, 2009.
  13. An engaged Chinese couple pose for their wedding photographs at a studio in central Beijing November 27, 2009. China is in the midst of a golden age of weddings, a boon for businesses from photo studios to global platinum miners. Yet nowhere is the economic impact so potentially profound as in the housing market. A flood of newlyweds such as Meng and Fan buying their first homes could help power China's property sales for years, even as some investors fear that prices are already in dangerous bubble territory. Picture taken November 27, 2009.
  14. Stanford's Nnemkadi Ogwumike, right, reacts after she scored a basket and was fouled by a Gonzaga player in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, in Stanford, Calif. Katelan Redmon (23) looks on.
  15. Gonzaga's Courtney Vandersloot, right, goes up for a shot, while being guarded by Stanford's Nnemkadi Ogwumike in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, in Stanford, Calif.
  16. Gonzaga's Courtney Vandersloot gets control of a loose ball, guarded by Stanford's Jeanette Pohlen in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, in Stanford, Calif.
  17. Portuguese singer, Mariza, reacts as she sing a 'Fado' during the Inaugural Session of the XIX Ibero American summit at the Belem Tower in Lisbon Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. The annual summit brings together the leaders of 19 Latin-American countries plus Portugal, Spain and Andorra.
  18. Fireworks are seen at the end of the Inaugural Session of the XIX Ibero American summit at the Belem Tower in Lisbon Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. The annual summit brings together the leaders of 19 Latin-American countries plus Portugal, Spain and Andorra.