Mary-Margaret Bundy
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Matthew McConaughey:
Greenlights reads like a whole separate genre of its own. How difficult was it to tell your life story without falling into memoir territory?
Matthew McConaughey
Not too difficult. I never intended to write a memoir. The fact that the backbone narrative chronologically told over the last 50 years of my life leant to the memoir genre but never felt retrospective in how I shared them, I believe mainly because the stories from my life were all used as introductions to lessons learned via prescribes, poems, prayers and bumperstickers—all of which I hopefully used as scalable applications to NOT only events in my life, but in similar yet personal events in the readers life. In film terms I approached the story telling narrative as the main storyline, and placed the prescribes, poems, prayers, and bumperstickers as call backs (flashbacks) to inform the reader of HOW I chose to view the preceding story, and as launchpads (flash forwards) to contextualize and propel the reader INTO the following story to come.
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Alaina Friedrich
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Matthew McConaughey:
Matthew, I am so interested in your road trip experiences. I have seen some wild things while traveling and you’ve done a lot more of it than I have. Is there anything really ridiculous or insane that you’ve seen as a passerby/witness or while rubbernecking on the road? I loved your storytelling of people and places you’ve seen. Couldn’t stop laughing at the pipe fight between your dad and brother. Best, Alaina
Minette
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Matthew McConaughey:
Hi Matthew, I just loved your book...what a treat it was to read and an extra treat indeed to listen to you reading the audible version 😊. My question is, in the book you talk about stops and stays on your life journey. With the stops, did you know these were stops rather than stays at the time you were living them or just at the time when you were choosing to move on? Thanks so much!
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