You’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 AFFLECKI’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
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People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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You get old, you slow down.
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Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.
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People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
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I 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.
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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 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.”
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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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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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