Top 19 Quotes by Matthew Modine

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

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.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

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.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

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.