On his previous comments on diversity: "There was some context taken out [... When he saw the final cut] I went, 'Oh my God, I look like an asshole.' I thought it was a really insensitive thing to say. I was just trying to say actors are more effective when they're a mystery. And somebody picked it up and said I said gay actors should get back in the closet. Which is like, I mean, it's stupid, but it is painful when things get said that you don’t believe."
*the interviewer noted how Matt Damon seemed less apologetic during his recent appearance on Ellen Degeneres show...
On Donald Trump:"But when people are talking about putting a wall up, I just can't take them seriously. I can't. It seems so un-American. We have people running for the highest elected office talking about putting a wall up that would keep my wife and her family out of the country, you know?"
On Ben Affleck:"There's nobody who's more misunderstood. Ten years ago, the public image of him could not have been farther apart from who he actually is. It was like he was being cast in a role, that he was a talentless kind of meathead, with his whole relationship with Jennifer Lopez. He just got cast as this person that he wasn't. It was just really painful. It was painful to be his friend, because it wasn't fair, you know? To my mind, nobody really got him at all. And through his work, he climbed from the bottom of the mountain all the way back up to the top and past where either of us had ever been." lmao...
On The Martian/Interstellar:"I said: 'You know, I really want to do this with you, but I just did a cameo in Chris Nolan's movie. Very, very different, but it's about a guy stranded by himself on a planet. It might be weird to follow that up with playing a guy stranded on …' And Ridley said, 'It's not going to matter. One year in between the films, that's a lifetime now.' "
+ he says he didn't do the fourth Bourne film because he thought the script was terrible. Which is why Universal switched to Jeremy Renner for Bourne Legacy.
+ he says he always sees his family at least once every two weeks (while shooting a film etc)
source: thr