At the recent press day for The Bourne Ultimatum,
Matt Damon took some time to also talk about family life with his wife Luciana Barroso and new young daughter, Isabella. “Being a dad is still great, it’s been just amazing,” he says. “I mean,
these stages just go by… incredibly fast, you
know? The little discoveries every day — so much is happening, so much changes
in the first year. I mean, she’s walking around now. She’s 13 months old,
so it’s just amazing. It happens at warp speed. I see why, when parents
see little babies, they get that thing, they go, ‘I want another
one,’ because the stages all just fly past. And if you’re with her every
day, which I’m lucky enough to be, you don’t necessarily [notice it]. It’s only if you’re taking
pictures or it’s only if people you haven’t seen for a couple months come by that you
even realize [how fast things are moving].”

“Right now, she kind of sounds like a crow,” continues Damon, making a high-pitched squawk for illustrative purposes. “And she points at things. This morning,
she pointed at the ceiling, and there was nothing on the ceiling. And she
just went, ‘Caw!,’ like that. And I was like, ‘Well, that’s the
ceiling,’ and she just laughed. And I was like, ‘I don’t
know what’s funny about that.’ So I’m trying to figure out what’s going on
in her head. Sometimes you know… you go, ‘Oh, you want some milk?’ And she [laughs], and you go, ‘All right, she was thirsty. That’s good, she communicated.’ But then sometimes she just has these things that I just have no idea what she’s
thinking. So I’m working on that.”