Robert Downey Jr. is on the front page of the December 2009 edition of Esquire Magazine. In MAG tells how he believes that his days on the big screen are numbered, and considering becoming a director in the foreseeable future.

After years of arrests and drug-related arrests, reformed Hollywood wild child, Robert Downey Jr. has rebounded nicely with his roles in the vehicles as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes. But the great part of the next star to come out from behind the camera? Robert, now 44, believes his days are numbered the big screen and once as a director in the foreseeable future.