--- description: Everyone knows that Clint Eastwood directs. But Ben Affleck? This fall he will head up his first feature, Gone, Baby, Gone. He's one of a crop of younger actors, some of whose stars have waned, to get behind the camera. title: What I Really Want To Do Is... image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # What I Really Want To Do Is... by [Rebecca Winters](/author/rebecca-winters/) Mar 27, 2005 5:00 AM CUT by [Rebecca Winters](/author/rebecca-winters/) Mar 27, 2005 5:00 AM CUT Everything Is Illuminated. The Manchurian Candidate star Liev Schreiber is running the whole campaign for this summer’s big-screen adaptation, starring Elijah Wood, of the Ukraine-set Jonathan Safran Foer novel. House of D. David Duchovny and wife Téa Leoni appear in the X-Files star’s directorial debut, a coming-of-age tale that Duchovny wrote, which is coming out April 15\. Yes, Agent Scully, that casting does sound suspicious. Off the Map. In his just-released family drama, Campbell Scott directed Joan Allen and Sam Elliott. The Roger Dodger star should know how to handle deans of the screen: his parents were George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6671838/what-i-really-want-to-do-is/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6671838/what-i-really-want-to-do-is/"},"headline":"What I Really Want To Do Is...","datePublished":"2005-03-27T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-22T06:02:16.316Z","description":"Everyone knows that Clint Eastwood directs. But Ben Affleck? This fall he will head up his first feature, Gone, Baby, Gone. He's one of a crop of younger actors, some of whose stars have waned, to get behind the camera.","url":"https://time.com/archive/6671838/what-i-really-want-to-do-is/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rebecca Winters","url":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-winters/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6671838/what-i-really-want-to-do-is/","name":"What I Really Want To Do Is..."}}]}] ```