The Man is everywhere

How Terrence Malick suggested the ending for Good Will Hunting, and more from Matt Damon. (Taking Barack)

During a recent interview with Matt Damon for The Times, I spoke at length about the writing of Good Will Hunting. The script arose, he said, from the stew of mixed feelings he had first as a Cambridge townie resentful of Harvard students, then as a Harvard undergraduate himself experiencing first hand the life he had been envying from afar.