Matthew Ryan Hoge (born 1974) is an American writer and film director, known for writing and directing ''

The United States of Leland ''The United States of Leland'' is a 2003 American drama film written and directed by Matthew Ryan Hoge, starring Ryan Gosling, Don Cheadle, Chris Klein, and Jena Malone. The film follows the eponymous Leland, a teenager who seemingly randomly ...

'' (2003).

Biography

Hoge was raised in the northern Denver suburb of

Thornton, Colorado Thornton is a home rule municipality located in Adams and Weld counties, Colorado, United States. The city population was 141,867, all in Adams County, at the 2020 United States census, an increase of 19.44% since the 2010 United States cen ...

. He attended Horizon High School, where he participated in the school's theatre program and was introduced to the philosophy of

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the s ...

. Hoge earned a BFA in Writing for Film and Television from the

USC School of Cinema-Television The USC School of Cinematic Arts is an academic unit of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. With a history that dates to the first years of talkies, the school descends from America's first program to confer a college degree i ...

in 1996.

Works

*''Self Storage'' (1999) *''

'' (2003)

References

External links

* Interviews: * * 1974 births USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni Living people People from Thornton, Colorado Film directors from Colorado {{US-film-director-1970s-stub