I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Clint Eastwood enables and allows things to happen. You walk on some sets and it's like walking into an emergency room. It's like, "Come on guys, we're just making a movie here." That tension runs into the performances and into the movie.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.