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 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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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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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
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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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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Yes, I’m going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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No matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
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I 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!
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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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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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