I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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!
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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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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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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You 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.
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I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it’s not even a meritocracy. It’s about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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You get old, you slow down.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
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I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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