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Matthew McConaughey

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“Absolutely. Absolutely. I don't know if this is going to post, but I post stuff about all the stuff I'm doing, the movies on the 10th of April on video and demand iTunes, all that stuff. And then Archer starts, I think, on the 24th of April and all the other stuff. I don't know, TV, whatever. You can find me online. I don't know when you're going to listen to this, but, you know, just come say hi to me on socials.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I talked about combat. You know, who spends time on a website anymore? Just follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. All that stuff is just Aisha Tyler one word.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I guess when I did my podcast thematically, the stuff that we've talked about was always stuff that I talked about, which is like, it doesn't matter what you want to do. It sounds very greeting card, but like the barriers are, they're imagined. You know what I mean? And maybe you're going to have to start small and maybe you're going to have to start close to home. But like a greater regret will always be not having started. And I'm always trying to find a way to be more bold in my life and hopefully share the things that have helped me do that with other people. So it is exciting to be having the conversation with you because I think that's a lot of what you've done is you've kind of lived these experiences so that the things that you learn could be shared with other people. Just go out and do awesome shit.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No one ever learns from success. You can kind of do a postmortem and say, oh, this stuff worked, but failure is where you have explosive growth, where you really have to reconsider all of your assumptions. And it's so much more powerful than success is at making you eventually successful.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And got picked up for distribution, and the result has been much better than I ever could have anticipated. And I'm really proud of it because, I mean, I made it for what is typically the catering budget. On a regular Hollywood movie. You know what I mean? We made it for just no money and in no time. And I think it also says something. I think what I'm also proud of is that the movie actually does have a strong point of view and a strong visual personality and a strong style that is my own. When I look at it, I don't think I'm trying to emulate anybody. I feel like this is something that I made. It's my little lumpy ashtray from shop class and I really love it”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Having to throw all that footage away. Another day we lost light and had to get back up at five in the morning and kind of shoot dawn for dust, but we just kept pivoting. We just kept, nothing was catastrophic. Okay. And I think that's something I got from my father. It's like, okay, this isn't working. Okay, so we're going to do this. Okay, that's not working. I'm going to do this rather than, oh my God, this is the end of the world. What are we going to do? And then imposed, I had very little money for post and very little time to cut the movie together. And about four weeks in the editor that I had cutting the movie, he was a great guy, really talented, just wasn't connecting with material. Wasn't able to assemble the movie. It was an unusual movie. It's one guy in a car. And I had to let him go. And then I had to learn Avid, the avid system, and start cutting the movie myself. But again, I wasn't like what I'm going to do. I don't have an editor. I'm going to die. I just thought, okay, well, like the answer here is that I'm going to learn this skill set and I'm going to keep moving forward. And then, you know, I made this little film. It was, you know, strange and atmospheric and dreamlike. And, you know, it didn't get into sundance and everybody else wants to get into sundance. But then it got into eight other festivals and won two awards.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I hate to have it be about this because it sounds like it's super self promotional, but I really am proud of this film. And for a variety of reasons. Yeah, access because it was such a, I mean, I was lucky that I was brought a great script and I had a really talented actor, but we put this movie together so quickly. And I had a vision for it, but I also was, because we were moving so fast, feeling my way through the dark in some aspect. And I think one of the reasons why it came together the way that it did was because I both had a vision for the film, but I was open to modulating. And I think that's really important in anything that you're doing, no matter what field you're in, is that you have to both, we prize vision and kind of rigidity in this culture, but I think that being able to pivot and be nimble is way more important than being kind of a rigid visionary. You have to be able to look at data and interpret it and then apply it to your situation. Or you just, you're just going to keep banging your head against a wall. So we made this movie. We got into the very second day of filming. We started really late. We lost our light. We had to kind of pivot that day.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Accomplish here. It just never ever coalesced. But it was fine because it was like, I remember kind of enjoying the process of making it and then being really kind of surprised and delighted by what a piece of shit it was. Much like that set where nobody laughed. I thought, well, man, that didn't work at all. Okay, I need to go back and figure out what to do next. I think every artist, you know, I think Quinn Tarantino has a famous story about his first film being unwatchable. I just think Sometimes if your personality is to be really aggressive and kind of dive in, you're bound to make some spectacular failures, you know, and you just have to have a high tolerance for that and not take it personally and keep moving forward. But yeah, I literally was like, I know you guys don't get it. I don't get it. I don't know what I can't explain it to you. I have no idea what I was thinking. Thank you for putting yourselves in my hands. It was a terrible mistake on your part, but you're very gracious to have trusted me with your lives.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's interesting, like I was talking about that short film that I made that was like the one that will never be seen by any human being. Actually, I think it's been destroyed where it was just like I just thought that I could just charm my way through this short and I had a bunch of friends kind of show up and it was such an odd idea. It didn't even make any sense. It was about a guy who flashed women and he flashed women and I can't remember why he flashed women, but it was something to do with like bravery. It was like a metaphor for bravery that this guy would like flash women. And also maybe like hubris, like the idea that like we're going to be super excited to see this guy's penis and he would kind of like try to use it as currency and it would never kind of go his way. But it just made no sense. It just ended up being like a series of vignettes about a guy like reeling his penis to strangers. I just remember at the end like literally thinking it's one thing to think like people don't get me. I was like, I don't get myself.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, obviously, the book is just a collection, not even a comprehensive one, but quite detailed of many, many mistakes that I've made. I'm trying to think of something that's happened recently. It's interesting. I see my mistakes differently now than I did when I was younger. They just feel like an aspect of being human versus like some kind of tragic law. A fly, exactly. It just seemed like an unavoidable aspect of being alive. And then I'm thinking ones recently that don't feel like that cataclysmic. So they're like lame stories.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everybody's different. You know what I mean? A long time, I would have wanted to be more like you, like disciplined and sitting down. And because, you know, there's this panic that ensues when you are seven weeks from your deadline and you had nine months to write a book. But it's just like that for me, certain threads have to connect and that requires”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I definitely have OCD. I'm definitely an obsessive personality. But once you accept these are my strengths, this is where I excel. This is how I excel rather than try to force yourself into someone else's workflow, like figure out what yours is. As a writer, and you've written lots of books I've only written two, but with both books, I had this huge lead time. And it wasn't that I was lazy or procrastinating. Like the book wasn't there yet. And then just one day the book was there. And then I sat down and I wrote the entire book in a few weeks. But it just needed to gel. It needed to synthesize. And if I had been trying to sit down and kind of write a little bit every day, it would have just been like this like big agglomeration of Glop. But just one day, I was like, oh, the book is in it. The book is in me now. The book is in me. And then I got it out, you know.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I should just give up. I should stop making resolutions and then I won't have to not accomplish that. I mean, look, maybe a part of success or like success at being you, like figuring out being you is like understanding what your strengths and your weaknesses are. You know, like my strength is my aggressive work ethic. It was when I was a young comic, I would be like, oh, I should be writing every day. I should write. I should be like this guy. Well, like, that's just not my, that's just not how I operate. So I think once you accept what your own methodology is.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Currently, like fantastic junk. I mean, some good stuff. I watch Walkie Dead Fear The Walkie Dead. That's always really good workout shows. Right now, I'm watching the magicians during my workouts. And then when I finish that, what will I watch after that? Sometimes I watch stuff that's on streaming services because I hate to have to, when I'm growing, I don't want to have to watch commercials. And I can't stop to fast forward because I'm trying to beat my previous row time. So stream, stream stuff on Hulu, like X-Files or Handmaid's Tail, or I just watched a show called Deutschland 83 that was pretty great. It has to be something that I can kind of watch, which is why I'll typically watch something that's not too mentally demanding. I can't pay attention too closely to plot points.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Transit time was what killed me. You know, it's like, I have an hour to work out, but I don't have a half hour on either side of that to go to the gym.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's such like a railing, like an upstairs railing, and it just hangs off of the railing. And that's it. I mean, I try to keep it relatively simple so that I'll do it. I don't really train with anybody because I just can't, I can manage the hour workout, but I can't manage the transit between my home and a flat. I don't have enough time to do that too. You know what I mean? Like I've got the hour. I don't have two hours. So I don't go to a gym anymore because I just, I just would be, I wouldn't have the time for it.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's typically my workouts, and then I'll do like a set of 5x25 kettlebell sets, like, you know, like I'll get up in the morning and just do 125 kettlebell swings in front of the television. And then sometimes I'll do a TRX workout because I didn't have really a way to simulate pull-ups. So that was like, that was why I got the TRX. So I could do, that was like the one thing I didn't have in here was a pull-up bar.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I like better booch and I like was it life aid I think is one of the other I love kombucha. I'm very slutty when it comes to kombucha. I'll drink any kombucha. I'm a big kombucha fan.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Depends on the day. Like, you know, between like six and seven I used to pick up a lot earlier, but I let one of my shows go, so I don't have to wake up at the cracked dawn every day anymore. So it's like between, you know, like six and seven o'clock. And I have to work out in the morning, or I won't get, I won't work out at all”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, to my mouth. I take it with about two ounces of kombucha in the morning, so I don't have to think about it. But I take so, I mean, I'm sure you're like this. Or maybe after all of that experimentation on yourself, you just get up and have a bowl of frosta flakes in the morning, Tim. But, you know, it's like I do that and then I have my bowl of supplements and then I have my fish oil and then I have my curcumin and then I have my turmeric. And by the end of the morning, like I've supplemented like a banquet. Like I don't even need to eat. I've taken so many crappy tablets.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's tarot. No, my father calls it axle grease. That's what he's like, give me this axle grease. Because I gave it to my dad. I was like, I think this would really help you. And you're supposed to take it in liquid, but he's just been eating it on a spoon. He's a better man than I.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because before the glutathione, I was rolling slow, and now I'm just like a jackrabbit. So it could be something else, but I'm going to say it's the glutathione.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. You can get fat soluble. We can get this like fat soluble glutathione that you just take. You just like gulp down. It tastes like axle grease.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is so insight baseball. Sometimes I get IVs. I get IVs if I really like, if I'm wrecked, like if I travel a lot or if I went to Coachella. And”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is like bullseye for you and your audience. I started going to a naturopath, so I'd be like supplementing differently. And I started taking glutathione. And I'm rowing like faster now than I did in my 20s. Like I just keep getting personal best. I'm a rower. It's confusing. I'm a lot older than I'm a lot older than I was when I was rowing competitively. And I just keep like knocking like 30 seconds and then 45 seconds and then a minute and 10 seconds off my rowing time. So now I'm just obsessed with like kidding person the best every time I row.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hiked today. That was just like a 90 minute hike, which is just more about feeling groovy. But right now I'm obsessed with my ergometer. I kind of go through periods of like not rowing and then periods of rowing really aggressively. And this is going to be right up your alley, Tim.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A bench or a step can help you because it could just kind of do like single leg step downs until you build up your quad and your glute strength to do pistols.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I still use my ergrometer, my concept to erometer. I have had it since 2000, it is 18 years old. I have never had to repair it or replace any parts. It's the single part of the”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Either doing it so much that you're hurting yourself or not doing it and then engaging in that intermonalogue about how you're like worthless and you can't get your shit together and I don't have either of those things. I just know I'm happier and better when I work out. I finally dropped the monologue about like, you know, I'm like, I'm not a good person if I don't crush a workout. I just try to do it every day because I know I'm better mentally. And I also cheat completely. Like I have my phone. I took a hike today. I had my phone with me and like I stopped every 10 minutes write something down. So, you know, I'm not really like fully and I'm not being in the moment when I'm working out. A lot of times I'm stopping like hundreds of times to make notes and remind myself of stuff I have to do or put stuff on my calendar.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Element, do you think? Well, it's interesting because I really love working out, but there's a constant battle for me between like being effective with work. And I'm the queen of getting up at like 5 a.m. to work out, putting on my workout clothes, and then being in front of my computer at four o'clock in the afternoon, and I haven't moved. Like, I mean, that's just like a normal day, like didn't move, didn't eat, didn't do anything, just been in front of the computer for like 11 hours. But it just, it's just such a great stress manager. And I also think that there's another thing there, which is it just, again, like puts you back in your body, you know, this thing that's carrying your brain around and making you effective. And I think that with everything, all of the stimuli that we experience nowadays, all the pictures and the images of perfection that are coming in at a much faster and more voluminous pace, it's really easy to follow into like an abusive relationship with exercise.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Most effectively, and then be like, I don't know about you guys, but I just fucking crushed my to-do list. I realized, even though I can feel very harried, it's interesting to me to be feeling like a part of being on this planet is like fully engaging and doing everything I can do and everything I'm interested in because I don't want to look back and be like, man, I should have tried that. I'm happy to look back and say, man, I tried that. And it went terribly for me. That's a perfectly comfortable space for me to be like, man, I tried that and I completely shut the bed. But what I find very uncomfortable is the idea that I always wanted to do something and I never did it. And so that's what I fear. What I fear is not trying, not experiencing all the things that I want to experience.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dopamine. That's it. Dopamine. Serotonin's sleepy time. Yeah, dopamine. I get a dopamine release when I complete tasks. And I just, you know, I get higher and higher the more that I execute. I find executing in and of itself really enjoyable. So I'm just trying to apply that aggression to leisure. Like, can I get the same satisfaction? If I make a to-do list, and one of the things is have fun, will I get the same dopamine release if I had a lot of fun? How can I?”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, like out the real world, like I go out and I try to not just be, you know, I just had a period of life where I was just like up gym, work, sleep. I just remember one day I was like, I'm going to die. I'm going to die of boredom. I bore myself. You know what I mean? And so, you know, like I think I try to court danger in a safe way. It's not like I'm jumping on a plane with no parachute or bullfighting or bare knuckle brawling in an alley, you know, filled with needles. But I am trying to just like be not always have my head in my computer. But the reason that people are workaholics, well, there's lots of reasons I'm sure social pressures, but for me, I just get this big serotonin release. Is it serotonin? What's the brain? What's the satisfaction drug?”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, it's like that's my daily practice. That's my one day at a time. It's like just constantly trying to remind myself to rest. I engage socially a lot more than I used to.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm sure there are other theories. There's a very famous French writer. It's Nuts, but it's somebody anyway about have a bourgeois life and be radical in your work. But I actually don't think that you need to be fully engaged in your life in order to be an interesting artist because you need to be alive to be able to speak about the human condition”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My main struggle is just always being as effective as I want to be. You know what I mean? I'm just super ambitious. I have highly developed, I don't mean like I'm good at it. I mean like it's very far advanced workaholism. I mean like I have pathological workaholism. It's like a sickness. And whenever I say I'm workaholic people always laugh and I go like look it's a problem. You know, I don't know how to rest. It's not that I don't like to play. I do like play. I don't think I have any time to rest. And I worry that it makes me, it could result in me not being an interesting artist because I think you need to play and to daydream and to rest and to experience things to be able to tell interesting stories. No one wants to hear about your daily trek from your home to your office. It's just not compelling.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it's not that I'm fearless. It may just be that the things that are interesting to me now don't engender fear the way that they used to.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know it's interesting because I think the one that feels the most obvious is I'm afraid I won't get to make another film, but I'm not really legitimately afraid of that because I feel like I'm just going to put this next movie together and make it. I think now that I've done one with like no help and no assistance from anybody, like the next one's going to be cake. I mean, I had help. I had my team, but I didn't have the kind of traditional Hollywood helper. I had like a team of agents kind of making magic. Like it was really just like a scrappy little group of filmmakers doing this film with me, the lead actor and screenwriter and my creative executives. It was a small group of people, you know, completely outside of the system.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm making it definitively. It may be the wrong one, but I'm going to lean all the way into it, and we're going to see what happens. And also because we shot the whole movie all the way through, if there were errors, I had the next day to recalibrate in a way that you don't get when you typically make a movie for people again who don't know. You know, I'm an actor as well. So like when I'm on a TV show or I'm doing a movie or whatever, I'll leave at the end of the day and go, oh, shit, man, I wish I'd done this with that scene. I wish I'd tried this. But every day, the next day, we got to wake up and go, you know what? We have a whole new bite at this apple. We're going to do it a whole different way today. And so at the end, I really felt like we really fully explored the material, which we wouldn't have been able to do if we had been making a movie in seven days and not doing it with this kind of volume approach that we had.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Certain things just come to the surface, like certain things are thrown into relief, and it's not like you can't make mistakes. But I think you get a clarity sometimes because you can't dither. There is no time for paralysis by analysis. I am making this decision.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Air conditioning in May, beginning of June essentially in Los Angeles. And it was just so intense, but we shot three cameras. So by day three, we essentially had the entire movie in the can because we were doing the whole thing all the way through from three angles. So by day two, we had six angles and we had the whole movie on wax on the digital version of wax. And so then the next four days were just about kind of creative play. And I think that the result is I made a movie in a week. It's experimental. It's unusual. transporting and strange. And going in, I thought I'll never make a movie this way again. But now I would make a movie that way again because I just didn't have any time to be afraid. I mean, there was no time to be anxious. I just had to go. It was wonderful. It was just like one of the seminal experiences of my life.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going to make it nine days, but I realized if I made it faster, I'd have more money available to me daily. I'd have like my daily resource load would be higher. So we cut the schedule from nine days to seven days, which is incredibly aggressive for a feature. Whenever I tell people I made it in seven days, they ask, well, how is it short? We had to be really aggressive. So we ended up doing it in this way that was so terrifying and so breakneck, but so exhilarating, which is that we shot the first 15 pages of the movie in the first day. And then we shot the next 65 pages of the movie. It was actually shot about 17 pages on the first day, about 67 pages on day two through seven. And that meant that the actor had to do 67 pages of dialogue a day. For people that don't know, typically on a movie you do like between three and six pages of dialogue a day. So he was essentially doing the entire movie all the way through every day, locked in a hot car with no.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People are so risk averse that they take all of the edge and singularity out of a project. So very quickly I realized that I was going to have to probably crowdfund the movie if I wanted to do it my way and on my time on my timeframe. So in March of 2016, I had my first exploratory conversation with the people around me and with Kickstarter. They have people over there who are kind of like around to like help you kind of figure out how to put a project together. I built the campaign in three weeks. I launched it in April. And one of the rules about crowdfunding and Kickstarter specifically is not a hard and fast rule. It's not like any rules that they enforce, but it's just like a rule of thumb that if you raise half of your money in the first week, you'll probably fund fully. So we had raised half of our money in that first week. And then I started hiring people on the film. And we did raise a lot of money for a feature. It was about $200,000 that we raised. And so that was what we had to make the movie. So originally it was.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But this happened very quickly. So I didn't have a traditional kind of like discouraging period of frustration with trying to put this movie together because I read it in like August or September of 2015 and I was kind of at peak engagement at the time in terms of work. Like I was on four shows and I really only had a little bit of time off in 2016 and I realized if I didn't make the movie in this one single week in May of 2016 that I wasn't going to be able to make it at all in that year and I have to push to the next year. And so then it just became about hitting that target. Like how can I hit this target? So I never even went like the traditional way of trying to find like people to finance the movie in a studio because they were going to say like we don't know who this actor is. Like he's unknown. Can we put something famous in this role? Can it be Ryan Gosling? And then can it not be with just him on camera? Can we have other actors in the movie? And then can we make it not in a car? Can we make it? I mean, like, we're just going to, you know, the whole kind of concept of the film was going to unravel. It's very typical in Hollywood.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was so wonderful. You asked if people tried to dissuade me from doing it. And the short answer is in Hollywood, the way that people dissuade you from doing stuff is just by not helping you, just by not. You don't even get no, you just get silence”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That he works with just trying to be better. It's really dark, it's very funny. I have been thinking, I'm sure I'll get some letters about this, but I happen to find that addicts are really entertaining people. And I don't mean they're funny like laugh at them. I find that typically people who have broken themselves down are just more honest than people who are trying to be perfect all the time. And so, you know, he's just, he's a guy who's self-aware. He's aware of the mistakes he's made. So it's a very darkly funny movie. And then it's very twisty. It's a thriller. So it's got a lot of secrets. And the most unique aspect of the movie is that the whole thing takes place in real time inside a car as he's driving through Los Angeles. So the lead actor is the only actor on screen and all the other actors are voice actors on the phone with him.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, so Axis is a thriller about an expatriate Irish actor living in Los Angeles who has had a lot of success, kind of explosive success in his youth and is really just used all of his resources to just wreck his life. He's a drunk and he's a drug addict and he's terrible about relationships and he's addict to everybody. And when we meet him, he's trying to turn his life around. And it's really about a guy who's not a bad person, but he's done some bad stuff, which I think almost every human being can relate to. We all have a little bit of a demon inside of us. And I think this is just a guy who's, he's been frail in the past, but he's really trying to be a better version of himself. But slowly over the course of an afternoon, and the movie takes place in real time as he's driving through Los Angeles, his life starts to unravel. And it's really about him trying to hold things together, trying to be a better person, trying to be a better person in his relationships with his family, with people.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Be radically great. Like, don't be like, I saw 10 things like this. Let me do the 11th thing. Be brave enough to cord failure. That's probably when you're going to do something great.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was going in like this, this is going to be a massive hit. I was like, I'm going to make this little movie. And then for the next one, when people say, well, what have you done? I could be like, look at this little thing I made, you know. So I think you have to always be focused on the results, not the result, on the thing and not the result because the result is directly tied to the quality of the thing. So it's not about infamy. It's about fame. And fame is based on quality of your work. So just be doing excellent shit all the time. And eventually one of those things will connect with other people.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, it was a short film. It was a two and a half minute short film that was just funny. We didn't know these guys. No one knew who they were. And they didn't have any connections. And I think it was just about doing something that felt original and personal. And I get it just comes back to like, don't try to figure out what people want. Just do what's interesting and important to you. And then keep doing it until you come up with something extraordinary. And that will be your calling card. It may not happen as fast as you want or as aggressively as you want or as expansively as you want. In the meantime, you're doing cool shit, which should be your primary goal in any event. When I made access, honestly, I just wanted to make a movie to show people I could make a movie. I wanted to make the best movie I could. And I was very rigorous in leveraging the resources that I had to the best of my ability. But I don't know that I had a lot of expectation that a lot of people would see it. It's just because I made the best movie I could that it got all of this attention. But I don't.”
2024-07-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #757: Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT