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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 Affleck

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
BEN AFFLECK

Call Hotel Myself Person Wake Up
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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Care Family Important Myself Professional Success
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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Gamble Goodness Hard Work Online Seduce Yourself
I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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Appearance Better Burn Learning
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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Chance Goodness Need Space Time Try
I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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Allow Complete Disappointment Failure Feeling Hard Time Myself See
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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Energy Internet Voice World
Every 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.
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Footage Mistake Movie Personal
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
BEN AFFLECK

Color Hairs Myself Photography
The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that.
BEN AFFLECK

Advantage Design Gamble Issues Online Yourself
I’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.
BEN AFFLECK

Creation Direction Greatness Movie Myself
But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
BEN AFFLECK

Direct Evidence Hard Work Morning Myself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Divorce Experience Life Myself Pleasant Suffering World
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Easy Feeling Force Myself Talent
There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
BEN AFFLECK

Greatness Love Pure Romantic Sleep

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.

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