Matt Damon Quotes

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really, the difference between a first-time director and a second- or third-time director - I mean there's no director who makes enough movies anyway - but if they're talented, they have it. And there is no movie that is perfect.

I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

Directing a film in Hindi is definitely on the cards.

It's important to be a part of good films.

I would like to direct good actors, and there are good actors who are stars.

Maybe at 55, I would like to direct. I will go the Angelina Jolie way.

Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.

If I had my way, I would plan every film with Salman Khan.

I always enjoy shooting for all my films.

Directing a Hindi movie for the first time was easy because Hindi films have been batwing doors for me since 1992.