More McConaughey: Want To Be Here

in WSJ.

in Singju Post

I always repeat this, but one of the coolest and simplest things I heard early on. I was onThe Jay Leno Show, my first talk show. He comes by the green room. He goes, “You nervous?” I go, “Yeah, a little bit.” He goes, “Look, I got simple advice, how to make this work.” I go what? He goes, “Just want to be here.” It’s always stuck with me: You just want to be there. All of a sudden the clock goes faster. You look back, you enjoy what you did more.

in Paper Magazine.

His Dallas Buyers Club diet:

That’s in Greenlights.

A striking aspect of Greenlights is how few of the stories take place on movie sets. For example, in this one paragraph he blows past the making of six different movies.

The actual making of movies may not be that interesting.

Greenlights is best received as an audiobook, as that’s how McConaughey composed it, talking into a microphone while driving: