If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.
Matt DamonIt'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.
Matt DamonThe better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?
Matt DamonThere are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
Matt Damon