At the recent press day for The Bourne Ultimatum, Matt Damon took some time to talk about his career in general, and where he sees things headed in the future. “Well, you know, the career [path] that I think Ben and I look
at… (George) Clooney’s definitely doing it right now, and Clint Eastwood. Those
are the careers where they’re acting, they’re writing, they’re directing, and they’re
doing it on their terms. I mean, I think that’s the biggest. I love making
movies. I love everything about it — I love writing and I love acting,
and I really want to direct. So I’ve been taking this last 10 years to really
carefully study these directors that I’ve been working with. And I’ve worked
with a lot of really good ones at this point, so I feel like I’m ready to
do it. And that, to me, would be great — to have a long career. I mean, it’s so
hard to have a long career in this business. …I mean, I’m still here after 10 years, and we’re all probably a little
amazed by that. [laughs] But yeah, so at this point, I just want to just be
smart about the work that I’m doing and try to have integrity about the choices
I make, and that’s it.”