There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
BEN AFFLECKI grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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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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Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
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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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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’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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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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Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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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I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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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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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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