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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.

Ben Affleck

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 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.
BEN AFFLECK

Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
BEN AFFLECK

Knock Life Yourself
Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
BEN AFFLECK

Movie Scripture Stuff Watch
It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
BEN AFFLECK

Actor Childhood Fantasy Movie Myself Thief
How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
BEN AFFLECK

People Prayer Time Woman
The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
BEN AFFLECK

Alcohol Best Cure Man Sex
I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
BEN AFFLECK

Failure Myself Permission Success Try
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.”
BEN AFFLECK

Feeling Monitor Oneself Past
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
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Food Goodness Known Pattern
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
I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
BEN AFFLECK

Environment Esteem Growth Home Myself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Director Follow Friendship Job Kind Mom Yourself
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
BEN AFFLECK

Change Pay Price Yourself
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
BEN AFFLECK

Basement Hostel Mad Mom Myself Stay

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