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Matt DamonMatt Damon

The Celtics will win the 2024 NBA Championship because they are the deepest team

My prediction is... I think we're the best team left. I think we're the deepest team and if we can stay injury free... I feel like we really should win this thing.

The Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks in June 2024 to win the NBA title.
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Matt DamonMatt Damon

Being a Patriots fan before Robert Kraft bought the team was a certain kind of hell

Being a Patriots fan was a certain kind of hell... and maybe this is why we have a different perspective on the Robert Kraft thing. Until Robert Kraft bought the team, it was brutal going out to Foxboro to watch them play. It was brutal watching 'em play on TV. It was heartbreaking constantly.

The Patriots were historically mediocre to poor before the 1990s, including a 1-15 season in 1990, making this an accurate historical assessment.
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Matt DamonMatt Damon

The Mount Rushmore of Boston athletes is Bill Russell, Tom Brady, David Ortiz, and Bobby Orr

So I would probably go Tom, Poppy, Bobby Orr, Bill Russell. That's a strong four. ... I think a lot of people would say Ted Williams. ... [But] how do you not put Bill Russell on that Mount Rushmore? You never see that again.

This is a subjective Mount Rushmore, though these four are widely considered the gold standard for Boston sports success.
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Matt DamonMatt Damon

I would have made more money than any actor in history if I had accepted the lead in 'Avatar'

I had a chance to be in Avatar... I probably would've made more money than any actor in history had I taken the part... It was 10% of the total earnings from the film... All I know is it made over 3 billion.

James Cameron has confirmed he offered Damon 10% of the profits. With Avatar earning $2.9B+, it is arguably the largest single-role payday ever rejected.
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Matt DamonMatt Damon

The Academy Awards should be voted on 20 years after the movies come out to accurately gauge which ones truly lasted

The real best way to do it is to do the awards like 20 years after the movies come out. ... There's no spin, there's no, it's like I still watch that movie. I still love that movie. That was the best movie of 2004. It would be a more accurate gauge of whether a movie really works.

While this is a subjective proposal for how to run an awards show, it's a logically sound critique of modern film awards culture.
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Matt DamonMatt Damon

The rat at the end of 'The Departed' symbolizes the main character's past and the social ladder he was trying to climb

The writer had in the script... the idea of me, of me kind of climbing the social ladder. And now I find myself in this old brownstone, but there's still a rat that you, that rat comes across and it's, it's his past. It's the thing... it's meant to symbolize all that stuff.

Damon is explaining the artistic intent of the filmmakers, which makes this a subjective but authoritative interpretation of the symbol.

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