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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

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
BEN AFFLECK

Dangerous War
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
BEN AFFLECK

Myself Preparation Professional Time Try Work
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.
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Divorce Experience Life Myself Pleasant Suffering World
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
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
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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Actor Greatness Magazine Myself Weapon
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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Charge Education Library Money Public Wasted Time Yourself
No actor forgets the times he couldn’t get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don’t want that momentum to stop when you get it.
BEN AFFLECK

Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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Greatness Love Pure Romantic Sleep
A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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Call Client Himself Question Reason Sale
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
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
BEN AFFLECK

Beginning Myself Photography Writing
You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
BEN AFFLECK

Excuse Kind People Treat Yourself
There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency. You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
BEN AFFLECK

Celebrity Currency Myself Start Way
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Care Family Important Myself Professional Success
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Corruption Depression Money Politics Possible Thinking

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