Skip to content

The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.

— Matt Dillon

Another quote →

More quotes by Matt Dillon

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.

I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery.

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.

All Matt Dillon quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Matt Dillon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.