Matt Will
Matt Will
thinking opposites cynicism
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
powerful book player
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. In the grifter world, however, government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies that will be the major players in this book use as a tool for making money.
freedom greed democracy
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
wall matter making-money
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
country way doe
One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.
wall jail dollars
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.
war mind president
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.
apology player hands
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
monday morning fun
It's fun to get the script every Monday morning and go, "Cool!" I'm a professional actor, but I'm also a professional story lover. I get off on that thrill.
believe tree santa
Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.
thinking people soul
I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.
people secret the-end-of-the-day
Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.
boys treasure littles
The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.
years bed monsters
I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.