fundamental sense of self-hatred

In an interview two days ago from [url=http://www.movies.com/movie-news/damon-lindelof-interview/8224]Movies.com[/url], Damon says: [i]“...I have come to understand it because when you live that intimately inside of a movie, it is very easy to go to a place of all the things you wish it was and all the things it could have been. All of this mixed with my fundamental sense of self-hatred and a very real - this is not an act I put on - and a very real sense that I will be discovered as a fraud and in fact have been called out as such on numerous times over my career. That is one of the things that drives me and I don't want to lose that part of me, but it also does take away from my ability to enjoy these things just as movies.”[/i] I don't know exactly what to think about this. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and to believe that he is not just saying this as ‘hot air’ (and to even admire him for this raw honesty), but it also strikes me personally as someone who does NOT carry around any self-hatred that this might have some expression in the actual STORY of [i]Prometheus[/i]. Would it be easy to keep a personal sense of self-hatred out of one's work as at least SOME kind of influence? I haven't seen the film yet (and don't like spoilers), but "self-hatred" and a sense of "being discovered as a fraud" seem like a really big deal to me. I'm not starting this discussion as an invitation to personally BASH this man as an individual. I don't like that, fundamentally. I dislike the final episode and the "resolution" of [i]LOST[/i] as much as anyone else who is not a fan of that "solution", but that's no reason to get personal and nasty about it. I find it rather amazing that he would say this publicly about himself and I'm curious about how it might have impacted [i]Prometheus[/i] for good or bad. NO STORY/PLOT SPOILERS ALLOWED, though PLEASE, in your responses. Thx.!