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I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.

Ben Affleck

I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Beginning Myself Photography Writing
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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Aware Home Myself People Revolution Thinking
You have to pay people real money.
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Money Pay People Reality
I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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Aspect Body Children Difference Feeling Life Myself Reach Vulnerable
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Color Hairs Myself Photography
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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Association Goodness Kind Marriage Myself Thankful Wife Work
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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Creation Director Greatness Name Risk Yourself
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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Better Creation Movie People Try Work 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.
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Creation Direction Greatness Movie Myself
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
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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Important Invention Known Myself People
When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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Entertainment Laughter Oneself Person Quite Screen Time
You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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Excuse Kind People Treat Yourself
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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Evil Money Root Yourself
I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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Environment Esteem Growth Home Myself
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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Food Goodness Known Pattern

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