I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
BEN AFFLECKYou’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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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 dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
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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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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.
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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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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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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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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.
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When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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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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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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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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You get old, you slow down.
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