Matthew McConaughey in conversation with John Grisham at Live Talks Los Angeles

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Matthew McConaughey in conversation with John Grisham
discussing his memoir, “Greenlights”
From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction
Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey is a married man, a father of three children, and a loyal son and brother. He considers himself a storyteller by occupation, believes it’s okay to have a beer on the way to the temple, feels better with a day’s sweat on him, and is an aspiring orchestral conductor.
In 2009, Matthew and his wife, Camila, founded the just keep livin Foundation, which helps at-risk high school students make healthier mind, body, and spirit choices. In 2019, McConaughey became a professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Minister of Culture/M.O.C. for the University of Texas and the City of Austin. McConaughey is also brand ambassador for Lincoln Motor Company, an owner of the Major League Soccer club Austin FC, and co-creator of his favorite bourbon on the planet, Wild Turkey Longbranch.
John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers. His next novel is a A Time for Mercy and will be published in October 2020. Matthew McConaughey starred in the movie adaptation of his book A Time to Kill.
“A Renaissance man on the big screen, McConaughey shows he is the same on the page. Mystical and spiritual but mostly just wonderful, Greenlights is an inspired memoir that celebrates the idea that it’s the journey rather than the destination that will fulfill us.”-Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning
“I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges-how to get relative with the inevitable-you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It’s a love letter. To life.
It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.”

[@imacenagirl]

Josh Grisham is an amazing author and I have loved Matthew since “alright alright alright”

[@jennybrandt5188]

I'm over "alright alright alright," but Matt is a great actor and has gone on to play some real heavyweight parts.

[@rosemiller8425]

I read this book and loved it, I read all his books and imagine Mathew as the lawyer….

[@imacenagirl]

Me too! Every book it’s Matthew

[@J.P.MistaPista]

I'm reading A time for mercy. When I started reading Grisham books, there was no KZbin, no Facebook, etc. And now the greatest fiction writer and his famous character are talking to me. Thank you for this video so much!

[@Jana-TheCraftyGambler]

I can’t believe that the book was out a big seller. I read it as soon as it hit the shelves and I could not put it down. I was immediately a huge fan and I bought every book John Grisham has written and have everyone of them in 1st edition.

[@AndyCColeman]

Just saw this interview. Thank you so much for posting it. I'm struck by the work ethic of both. John writes every single day beginning at 7:00 am, no matter what. Matthew spent so much time in complete isolation to decide if his journals had anything worth publishing. I have some self discipline, but I want to be like those two! Thanks again.

[@carolpomper4688]

This was such an interesting interview with engaging conversations between the two of you. About a month before this I saw you John Grisham on a zoom call with Quail Ridge books in Raleigh, North Carolina. The question I had to you at the end of the talk was whether or not A Time for Mercy would be made into a movie, and if so, would you want Matthew McConaughey to play the part of Jake Brigance again. Your response was that you'd love all your books to be made into movies and if Matthew wanted to be in this movie you would be all for it. I was so happy to find this interview, and realize that it still may happen. HOPE SO! As I was reading A Time for Mercy (loved it just as much as A Time to Kill), I was thinking of Matthew McConaughey as Jake Brigance the entire time! Also cannot wait to read Matthews book Greenlights!

[@imacenagirl]

Green lights is amazing- i recommended the audio book because he reads it to you - even better

[@zah1238]

Wow! You guys are All Incredible people. Honor to see this interview with John Grisham and Matthew McConaughey, would Love to see Sandra Bullock and Samuel L.Jackson were also there. Love this movie until the die I die.

[@pardist]

I agree with both self discipline and responsibility do give you freedom.

[@warmflash]

Fascinating stuff • touché

[@anthonyblore]

i just got the firm book, and a time for mercy. currently reading sparring partners.

[@divyapanday7157]

Matthew did a beautiful job in Time To Kill. I do hope he is in Time For Mercy Movie because it would not be the same with someone else.

[@colleensreviewsandstories5213]

Sycamore Road is another Jake Brigance novel by John Grisham. I would think they'd tackle that one first.

[@imacenagirl]

It should not be made if Matthew can’t play Jake

[@zah1238]

I agree with you.

[@wendyharper9454]

John was right - Matthew was perfect as Jake and Oliver was delightful as Harry Rex. In fact, all the cast were brilliant, except, sadly, for Samuel Jackson. I adore him, but somehow he didn't quite ring true as Carl Lee. Never mind me; it was still a great film. Would love to see "Sycamore Row" adapted to film, still with Matthew McConaughey as Jake, and still with John Grisham's input. That was a book that was almost a ghost story ......

[@andyzambrano2423]

I agree with your point about Sam Jackson. John Wayne is always John Wayne, DiCaprio is always DiCaprio, Chris Pratt is always Chris Pratt, and Samuel L. Jackson is always Samuel L. Jackson. Love em all, but it’s the actor you see and rarely the character.

[@robertbrouillette6767]

The reason Ghislane Maxwell got twenty years is, she had a defense team of the top lawyers in the country. Except they didn’t consult with John Grisham.

[@reneortegasilva7]

Today I will start reading the book of A time to kill

[@imacenagirl]

You are going to LOVE it

[@jennybrandt5188]

I've read all of John Grisham's books. He is by far my favorite author. I'm always impressed at the amount of research that goes into his books. I really liked "The Firm." I just finished his latest book, "Sooley," and liked it as well. I'm wondering who could play "Sooley" if it was made into a movie. I hope they will choose someone from South Sudan.

[@thecustomizer2008]

I haven’t read his books, I just started Rainmaker and I’ve seen some of his movies, The Client-Time to Kill-Rainmaker, and to everyone that is saying he is racist, how is he? He does use slurs in A Time to Kill I think but it’s set in the deep south so that’s kinda a given and the story is centered on a lawyer defending a black man because murdered the men who raped his daughter, he wouldn’t have the hero be the man defending the black man and he also wouldn’t have a black man as a main character, he wouldn’t have had the racist/rapists be the pos villains that they are if he was racist

[@kirk1007]

His best book in my opinion and I have read a lot of his is The Testament. It is also Grisham's personal favorite.

[@marileeodendahl2720]

McConaughey "in conversation" with Grisham? More like McConaughey soliloquy.

[@pardist]

😂

[@J.B24]

Did they remove the botox from Matthew's forehead?

[@Eltercero]

"My big study abroad in Australia." Lol.