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Matthew Modine Biography

Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as United States Marine Corps Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. His other film roles include the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, the high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, Drake Goodman in Pacific Heights and Dr. Ralph Wyman in Short Cuts. On television, Modine portrayed Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things, the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds, Dr. Don Francis in And the Band Played On and Ivan Turing in Proof.

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For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Example, Michael, Photography, Stories, Things

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game. . . usually softball.

Funny, School, Softball, Whenever

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

Baseball, Cards, Kind, Money, Silly

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.

Discipline, Photograph, Portrait, Portraits, Release

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

Education, Magazines, Media, News, People, Set

And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would be Iron Man, another rich guy who has the ability to make fantastic toys – so if you want to take Batman and Iron Man and put them in a battle, that’s an interesting battle. But if you want to take Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr. and put them in a UFC fighting cage, Christian Bale will – to quote Full Metal Jacket – tear Robert Downey Jr. ’s head off and sh-t down his neck.

Character, Christian, Downey, Fighting, Robert, Toys

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Light, Negative, Photography, Piece

You know what the problem is? You can't put a woman into a man's role. A women's journey in life, I'm not speaking disrespectfully of women and their roles in life, but a woman's journey in life is very different from a man's. That doesn't mean a woman can't do a man's job, but it doesn't mean that a woman should do a man's job the way a man handles it. The things that men question themselves about in life are quite different from the things women question themselves about.

Job, Journey, Mean, Men, Question, Role

Life really is very brief.

Brief, Life

When you're young, you get by on charm and good looks, not that I miss being charming or good-looking, but then you start to understand things about life, about the craft of acting. You approach it a different way. It's much more fun now than it was, because you take more chances and risks. I enjoy acting now more than when I was young.

Craft, Fun, Good, Missing, Risk

Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama bin Ladin and say, 'Listen man, what is it that you're so angry at me about that you're willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings?' That would be the miracle if we can get -- sit down and talk to our enemies and find a way for them to hear us.

Airplane, Fly, Man, Men, People, Willing

Fifteen dollar too beaucoup. Five dollars each. . . Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend.

Beaucoup, Dollars, Fifteen, Mom, Money

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Beautiful, Cameras, Light, Thing, Top

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

Actors, Frank, Sturges, Thinking, Used

When you're studying drama, when you're a young actor, there are simple rules about acting. "Why am I here? What prevents me from leaving? What am I trying to get? How do I hide something?" So when you're making a film like Abel's movie, you want to be thinking about those things all the time. And you wanna be armed with those things, and you hope the other actors you're working with have the same understanding of drama and scene and acting. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Actors, Armed, Drama, Scene, Simple, Thinking

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Digital, Photography, Romantic, Thinking, Way

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Age, Father, Light, Paint, Taught

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

People, Humanity, Shy, Ugliness, Capable

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.

Athlete, Baseball, Bench, Fantasy, Play, Son