What are some patterns that you look for to keep those green lights coming? You emphasise that it’s important not just to dissect our failures but our successes as well. But the art of living seems to be, what do we do with the yellow light? Do we slow down and make it a red? Because we kind of really need to be that introspective in our life to look back at it and go, ‘why do I keep having this problem? Why do I keep repeating this behaviour?’ It’s a way of contextualising circumstances we have in life. It’s a metaphor for approach, perspective, choice, optimism. Why the name Greenlights? Is it a metaphor for the lights turning green in terms of landmarks? I’ve even got photographs of my arm where I had written stuff down because I had nothing to write on at the time.
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I’ve got bags full of napkins, beer coasters, the insides of matchboxes. are the journals of different sizes spread across different parts of your house? When I hear you talk about recording your thoughts, it sounds fairly haphazard. So, I would think: wait, am I odd? Is that weird? And I’d go and write it down. Okay, but the joke that the entire theatre laughed at, I’d be like, I didn’t think that was that funny. And I would laugh at something that nobody else in the theatre would laugh at.
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And then I continued to write in it because, for instance, I would be in a movie theatre, and I’d watch a movie.
Why did so and so break up with me? Why do I have pimples on my face? The confusion, the questions, you know what I mean, going through an awkward time coming out of puberty into adolescence, you know, trying to figure out, what’s going on with my body, etc. I wrote in my diary for the same reasons - you know, questions you have when you’re 14 years old. It’s usually the young girl that writes in a diary, sooner than the young boy. Thirty-six years worth of journals, that sounds like a lot! Where did this start and how did you sustain this habit? And I said look, if you get bored - you got only one person to hang out with - You. I wanted to be stuck with me and who I’ve been in the last 36 years of my life. I didn’t want to have these things to reach out and have a relationship with the rest of the world. I didn’t want to have a TV, I don’t have a radio. And I didn’t want to have an internet connection. The reason I did that was because I was going away with my diaries of 36 years, my journals. Why go so extreme and what was that like? You put yourself in solitary confinement for 52 days in a desert to write this book, including 12 days of no electricity. We talk about the lockdown, life lessons, fatherhood and his exhaustive record of journals over the years. What ensues is a close to two-hour rollercoaster ride - with the 51-year-old actor ( Interstellar and Dallas Buyers Club), who quickly puts us at ease with his Texan drawl. This interview, centred around his new memoir, Greenlights, is much anticipated as you can imagine. It’s midnight in Chennai when we sit down for a video call with Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey. If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges-how to get relative with the inevitable-you can enjoy a state of success I call "catching greenlights."
I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries.
Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. Original book introduction: I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Get the Summary of Matthew McConaughey's Greenlights in 20 minutes.
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