Matt Damon Quotes

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there's usually not that much conflict about the direction.

I don't want to step on the DP's toes. That's the first lesson I learned when I started directing with other cinematographers.

I like working with directors I respect, who give me freedom but also give me a good base from which to work.

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.