The actor is best known for a string of romantic comedies and has starred alongside the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson, but said making "We Are Marshall" was a rewarding, cathartic experience.
The film, based on real events, tells the story of a town coming to terms with the death of its college football team in a air crash.
"We worked in that town in America where that took place, so all of the sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters were in that town, so everyone in the town was related to the people who had passed away," McConaughey said on Thursday.
The townsfolk overcame their initial scepticism to welcome the crew, he said.
"Everybody (was) standing back and being afraid of Hollywood coming to town and telling their story, and after a month they started to come a little closer and see what we were doing," he said.
"By the end of the filming we had made a lot of friends and the making of the movie was a very cathartic experience for everyone in that town, and it sort of helped to heal, telling that story."
McConaughey was speaking at the Mission Hills Star Trophy pro-am celebrity golf tournament in Haikou, southern China, where is competing alongside fellow A-listers Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Grant and Christian Slater.
A field of 18 professional golfers will compete in the event over the weekend for a winner's cheque of 1.28 million dollars.
Aside from the emotional satisfaction of "We Are Marshall", McConaughey said he would always have fond memories of his first movie, cult coming-of-age favourite "Dazed and Confused".
"The very first one, there's never going to be anything like that -- Dazed and Confused. It was my first film, I didn't know what I was doing," he said.
"I was looking around going 'Are you kidding me? I can do this for 350 dollars a day?' I was making 60 dollars a night waiting tables and they were like 'You're pretty good at this, do you want to come back tomorrow night?'
"It was like this for three weeks and all of a sudden I was in a movie. I will never forget that experience."
McConaughey, winner of People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" accolade in 2005, was most recently seen alongside Jennifer Garner in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past".
His other film credits include "The Wedding Planner", "Tropic Thunder" and "Amistad".
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