Right Before 'the Bourne Identity' Came Out,

Still, The Change Is Nearly Indescribable - Going From Total Obscurity To Walking Down A Street In New York And Having Everybody Turn And Look; To Feel The Temperature Of A Room Change When I Walked In.

The Director's In Charge Of Every Single Decision [in Film]. It's A Dictatorship.it's A Benevolent Dictatorship, But It's True. It's Every Single Shot. There's Nothing Arbitrary.

I Didn't Grow Up With Great Privilege, Nor Did I Grow Up Wanting For Anything. I Was A Middle-class Kid And, Relative To The Rest Of The World, That's Great Wealth.

There 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.

If You Are Writing A Story And Trying To Draw An Audience To Come And Hear You Tell It, It's Got To In Some Way Relate To Them. Who Wants To Come And Hear About Your Specific Problems? It's Not Therapy - It's Supposed To Be A Communal Piece Of Entertainment.