A lot of directors on a base level are fearful of actors and maybe even distrustful. I love the craft of acting and I love actors so I think they can probably sense that. They also know that I understand… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
I think one of the most difficult things about the lifestyle is that when it's winter, and there is no running water, you still… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
Film is a pretty poor medium to deliver a message. I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to ask a lot of questions and hopefully you can draw your own conclusions about whatever meaning might be there or what point there is; but I was conscious of wanting to create something that for a lack of a better… — Matt Ross Copy Share
I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician. — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun. — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a film geek.… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things. — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
