I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
BEN AFFLECKI’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It’s the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that’s really important to me too.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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When 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.
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I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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Sure, 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.
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I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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