Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick
Matthew Quickis an American writer of adult and young-adult fiction. His debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and Chris Tucker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 October 1973
CountryUnited States of America
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I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.
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Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.
believe sadness people
I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.
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Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.
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I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.
believe gone happy-endings
I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.
believe different knows
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.
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When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!
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When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.
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I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.
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My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.
primarily school seven since taught
I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.
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I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.
The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.