I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

Phillippe began dating Australian actress Abbie Cornish in 2007 after meeting on the set of Stop-Loss. Also starring Bruce Willis Jenna Dewan and 50 Cent the movie focuses on a group of young men from Detroit whose attempt at a diamond heist goes awry and brings them into conflict with a mob boss. Phillippe was present during the birth.

In the 2000s he appeared in several films including 2001's Academy Award Best Picture nominee Gosford Park 2005's Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash and the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers. Matthew Ryan Phillippe (pron. In 2010 he starred as Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Greg Marinovich in The Bang-Bang Club.