Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.