I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
BEN AFFLECKI find forgiveness to be really healthy.
BEN AFFLECKYou have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
BEN AFFLECKI’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
BEN AFFLECKEvery single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
BEN AFFLECKYou have to pay people real money.
BEN AFFLECKYou’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
BEN AFFLECKMy mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
BEN AFFLECKI’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
BEN AFFLECKI don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
BEN AFFLECKThere’s a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there’s a lot of compromise that goes with that.
BEN AFFLECKI like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
BEN AFFLECKMy mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She’s definitely got some war stories.
BEN AFFLECKPeople ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
BEN AFFLECKNobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
BEN AFFLECKIf you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
BEN AFFLECKAffleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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