Matt Damon is known to be an outspoken actor who cares deeply for his charities and organizations, but it seems that lately, the "Bourne" star has made some comments that made a lot of people less than happy with him.

During HBO's "Project Greenlight" which Damon executive produces, the actor allegedly interrupted a fellow judge to downplay the importance of diversity behind the camera.

As reported by People Magazine, in the premiere of the show's fourth season, Damon, along with a panel of judges that included one of his best pals, Ben Affleck, were tasked to choose the best director out of 13 finalists to work on a screenplay called "Not Another Pretty Woman", a comedy about a man who gets left at the altar and ends up marrying a prostitute. It must be pointed out that the prostitute is black, and she's slapped by her pimp, who is white.

The only black judge on the panel, producer Effie Brown pointed out how fragile the issue is, worried about the only black character in the story being turned into a trope, making it east to let her fall into the typical stereotypes.

Brown, who favored a directing duo of a woman and a Vietnamese man, said, "I just want to urge people to think about, whoever this director is, the way they're going to treat the character of Harmony, her being a prostitute, the only black person who gets beat by her white pimp."

This is when Damon interrupted her, saying, "When we're talking about diversity, you do it in the casting of the film, not in the casting of the show."

For those watching, it seemed that Damon was suggesting that hiring people of color as crew for a movie doesn't matter if the movie itself has minorities for actors, noting that merit in itself is the most important criterion when choosing a director,

Incredulous, Brown replied, "Wow, Okay."

The internet then threw shade at Damon, using the hashtag #Damonsplaining on Twitter, with some pointing out that there is little diversity in the casting of actors in Hollywood.

According to Census data by a USC Annenberg report, in the top 100 films of 2014, only 27% of all characters are minorities. Between 2007 and 2014, there were only 45 black or Asian directors out of the 779 total and in 2014, of the 107 directors of top films, only one is a black woman.

That being said, Damon seems less than knowledgeable in these stats. What do you think of his comment?