No matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
BEN AFFLECKNo matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
BEN AFFLECKIt wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
BEN AFFLECKThere’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
BEN AFFLECKIt’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
BEN AFFLECKI’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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 AFFLECKWhen I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
BEN AFFLECKIts not who you love. Its how.
BEN AFFLECKI like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
BEN AFFLECKYou get old, you slow down.
BEN AFFLECKI grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
BEN AFFLECKYou don’t know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you’re going to get some good fried chicken.
BEN AFFLECKI want to thank my wife who I don’t normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with!
BEN AFFLECKHow about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
BEN AFFLECKSure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
BEN AFFLECKNo actor forgets the times he couldn’t get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don’t want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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