"if you really want to give a character an obstacle to overcome a need I mean the base one is life and death the following is a conversation with Matthew McConaughey a legendary oscar-winning actor and..."

"let's start with love your parents had a Complicated Love Story divorced twice married three times what did you learned about love from your mom and dad and their love story that it's messy that it ta..."

"um and that even in the two divorces and in the two times where they couldn't live with each other they still loved each other they just couldn't live with each other at that time for whatever reason ..."

"well [Applause] I mean I don't know how much particularly my mom and dad were staying together at times maybe when they didn't want to because they had children I don't actually think they considered ..."

"the the hard angles that their relationship between my dad needed as much as my mom but the clashes demonstrated the passion that underlies the love yes and that's I've I've always been asked you know..."

"space dreams anything I was like Army I'm looking down I'm gonna put my head to the ground I'm gonna look right in front of me and deal with what's in front of me because dealing with dreams and what'..."

"what do you think about that that tension of a way of living life between being a dreamer and a pragmatist yeah which is a better way Donnie holds the the reciprocity the two of them I mean I can't be..."

"the people you love can sometimes suffocate the dream can uh make you believe that it's not possible it feels like a lot of parents kind of want you to be safe want you to be stable want you to have a..."

"of going to chase an acting career or something was what it was it was that was a different vernacular that was like not in our I was taught to work away up a company ladder and nine to five do your j..."

"those words mean to you we got to be more than just happy to be here I'm big on gratitude but we've got to be more than just thankful to be here or dream it you can do it it's got to be more than just..."

"what do you make of death does this scare you I'm not looking forward to it but it does not scare me do you think about it do you visualize it I do I do and it's a beautiful visualization and a beauti..."

"yeah there's Grace and poetry in that do you miss your father thank you take a bottom when I think about him I do now when do I think about him thought about him yesterday working through a script I'm..."

"process of working on a script or talking about hey movie do I always say I love the movie Mud because it's the one that I I visualized and seen my dad come to me so many times as a 12 year old and pu..."

"we'd come out me and Matilda Brothers on this has been on for decades we come out y'all ready to go buttoned up and they're looking like a hot we ain't going anywhere right now and so we told the stor..."

"you know it's that there's certain things that I know that I fully believe in it's like when do we religious when do we Cast Away Our Father you know when do we say no I'm going after the dream I'm no..."

"you yeah you're alone yes but I mean also not having that it's such a gift of Deliverance though as well because it's a I think it's an I mean it's an awesome feeling to know to know we're alone to kn..."

"gave me the first time courage to even look over my shoulder because again I didn't have to because I don't have to look dad's got my back no dad's gone from this life he doesn't have your back okay s..."

"trying to intellectualize my way into the reasoning and not skip over real feelings and discomfort I mean I I did get that from my mom and I have to watch it that that so resilient that we just dust o..."

"know it's inevitable how do we get relative yeah not skip it not throw it to the side not deny it which I'd love to talk about that here sometimes too about the value of denial sometimes the value of ..."

"so it's a very pragmatic uh value coming up to the denial okay and and and and and and my mom yeah does it to an extent that that that that I'm like mom do you have any consideration or context of sit..."

"like I did this uh uh road trip course in this Art of Living event a few weeks ago yeah out of hundreds of thousands of chats that came in and responses that came in afterwards it seemed to me that ab..."

"and you're doing the therapy and you're doing the work and you're taking a prescription if that's what you're taking where does your is there a value in going if it's holding you back from going where..."

"in there maybe you know maybe there's another word I think it's denial but it's not really denial because it's not like it didn't happen that's a earlier example I was giving a mom she will absolutely..."

"I think the metaphor of red yellow green lights is just so simple and so powerful you write about some green lights being engineered and some being mystical which I love the difference of that what's ..."

"mean we can't really add that up yeah it's a science when you look back you you see you know why it was that you were you were upset and ticked off that you had to pick up the kids toys before you lef..."

"it's awesome when you can do it did you engineer though I'm going to put myself in the place when you got on the plane to go to the destination that was an engineered choice and maybe I'll meet and I'..."

"I I think I'm reminded when I when I trust because that going optimistic just to put yourself on the plane was the engineer for getting there and as you say you've seen you say you roll in that mystic..."

"hands do you have uh um any certain non-negotiable structure before that freedom to go with the feeling I think so there's a set of principles I'll just uh basically Integrity of being uh good to othe..."

"those are reminders hang on to what they mean for you as we go forward but as we go forward quit worrying about so much about you again I was looking at the proverbial dream the cloud so much that I w..."

"there it's such an interesting place talk about food chain yeah you're just part of it there yeah we we humans somehow escaped that food chain but we're still the roots are still there I think we're a..."

"explosion they die from starvation because uh basically uh dust covers the entire North America and entirety of Europe and so the crops all die all the food sources all die and people suffocate and uh..."

"human civilization is like these uh AI systems large language models are trained on human communication and you get to ask it questions you get to have conversations with it you get to realize wow thi..."

"can add friends that you can have great conversations with and then some of those friends would be AI systems they'll call you out and you're bullshit in the most fascinating and interesting of ways a..."

"about that becoming the new family to where you know you said you know marriage you don't have kids could you see a future for yourself whether you have a relationship with AI and that is your family ..."

"that great friend that's a neighbor okay mentor and friend just like uh now there's AI systems that play chess far far far better than humans and we humans still play chess with each other or did they..."

"and gives us patterns from that which we give it um but that prompting that's uh that's the art of life like we prompt each other in conversation our loved ones when you when you when you go about you..."

"I toggled around with it and you ask what should I be afraid of you or is there what's the Dooms toward the answer was always well it's up to you she was awesome right there you go again it's up to us..."

"the reason they're dangerous is because they become viral there's something exciting in us about those ideas but they also harm others a lot because that's who we are as humans we're uh we're capable ..."

"if I may use that word and being real okay yeah the word authentic gets thrown around a lot and you know I I and I don't mean I used to think they used to be feel this way but but Bob Dylan loosened m..."

"shit all of a sudden I'm leaving crumbs with myself a debt Constitution gets blurry lying to yourself and to others yeah when you start to lie a lot of others enough you start to lie to yourself you d..."

"of having them because it's I don't think any of us like to admit our lives or look deep enough in the go I've relied so much on that lie that it's become my reality yeah and I'm and I and I I don't w..."

"shoot man I had on on it it's not all the hard stuff sometimes it can be a a a a fun thing I'm talking about how many times do we major in our minors let's admit where we sit there and we go all right..."

"much damn fun at it I had to admit that to let myself go damn right I'm going to play tennis again today or tomorrow if it's a simple fun thing so it's not always about the hardcore stuff that we have..."

"I I don't know someone was talking about like yeah they really admire this so-and-so person because they're not someone who looks in the mirror and I was like yeah also I was like man I gotta catch my..."

"because of my vanity actually I eat better the better in that morning you know I've and that led to being a better better husband better dad doing something with my kids when I'd rather be over there ..."

"also I go back and talk about the bullshit that's over there with those mystical successes it's the yeah no no go with it don't pull a parachute yet let's see how far we can go let's see how hot it ca..."

"Temptation in front of me had certain meals I ate that when the weight just went off like clockwork it was the who is Ron would have been between the lines and what the gift I got given that gave me t..."

"but enough to get back home Now where's this Monday go The Hope and the disappointment you have to take all that in that's part of that man I'm gonna I'm just gonna go to Sonic and get double cheese b..."

"catch the break and didn't follow through and then I remembered his family said like oh yeah he he invented he got patents on a whole bunch of things but he never would he had things to get patent but..."

"and I'll pick your pocket along whatever it takes so there's a tenacity to live by whatever means necessary to survive that I that I that I'm reminded of that I learned from raw so on that line of sur..."

"anybody off the hook especially himself you wanted him to forgive a little bit or give himself a little Amity he wanted him to like man it's Saturday bro can you go on a date he wanted him to like enj..."

"true for a lot of actors and actresses we don't it's not a separation if I've got I we each have everyone else in US it's just seeing diving into rust and gold knowing where his mind and heart is from..."

"process of being an actor an actress I guess is a really interesting way to be a philosopher of human nature yeah I mean it's an incredible really in it dive into the humanities yeah and all the ologi..."

"why is that okay which you would say wait a minute in some ways that's a those are antonyms they do worry no but but my I I pretty sure pretty safely can say that my own strength of spirit in my own p..."

"but I've been I I don't think it's coincidence that I was had so much of diving into the depths of that uh tortured character because I trusted that when I go out I'll come up the other side it's alwa..."

"in a world where there's a Cabo ethos that deems trespassing more clear earlier yeah but then then other other hats um I admire that simplicity of right and wrong and that the the Simplicity of that r..."

"but when done right you know there feels to be a something really uh authentic and human about that protect family protect land Above All Else look I you know this is a broader question but I'm going ..."

"that it bothered me at all but I know when I'm with those people but a new person you're still alive no I'm not going to do that I think that's that's the beginning of cynicism which I think is a horr..."

"you're like when I think Texas I think man Matthew McConaughey uh what's it mean to be a Texan to you I recently moved to Austin Texas some uh two years in all right all right welcome what's it mean t..."

"freedom of being an individual in the in the full meaning of that word yeah well Texas is liberal on your entrance very liberal on your entrance less regulation hey welcome High trust High trust sir W..."

"do you think about that kind of stuff about what the future holds in terms of uh political office I don't think about it in terms of political office I've I've graduated to a broader larger thought of..."

"useful when it seeks to invalidate it's small when it seeks vision it can be big yes well one's affirmative one's going into that cynicism we were talking about yeah you know and validation of any opp..."

"and I love sports it's tactically the place with which to move most advantageously I think of the free safety in the game of football they're in the middle of the field and they're deep they choose to..."

"nation CEO or the world that's a great thing to go you want to get your values line you want to admit where you lie and throw yourself some pop quizzes and what if this phone call comes at 4am what yo..."

"understanding of uh the the universe and our place in it yeah well it's the uh it's got the old Mr Mayor on the corner how big is that cloud metaphor in it because that was the character I played Coop..."

"you're here 53 years so far we'll see how many we get um what other parallel timelines are happening out there do is it is it small-minded of us to Define life on other planets as only something that ..."

"shallow idea I don't think they're I think of it more like you know when I think of Heaven those considerations are not in in anyone's mind heart or intent in the heaven that I think of you know so in..."

"empowering about that at the same time and humbling but confidence boosting yeah you know allows forgiveness allows ambition um I just love the perspective of that that picture to picture it that way ..."

"definitely there with uh what SpaceX is doing with all the folks who are trying to become a multiplayer species are doing it's really hard it's like build rockets that fight off gravity at a cost-effe..."

"have an innate ability because we have an innate ability to do when we do that well we do kind of enjoy it yeah and one of the things that requires is to kind of be really honest with yourself at what..."

"and I did find myself doing that thing I was doing at the Amazon looking around the corner any perspective possible female I met that I was attracted to I was like maybe it's the one I make the joke b..."

"and we if one was rolling we kept addition you go go again take the next shot more more more this was a biggie too getting excited for each other's success yes yes to be able I think it's very importa..."

"whom we know exactly what we want to do make it matter even when it doesn't matter that matters not for what I don't know for the fun of it that matters yeah our ability to create meaning and Beauty i..."