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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.

Ben Affleck

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?
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People Prayer Time Woman
If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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Define Moral Ourselves Price Try Universe
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
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
I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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Goodness Instinct Myself Reality
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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Balance Erase Experience Fabric Memories Myself
The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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Alcohol Best Cure Man Sex
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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Exploitation God Money Movie Myself
Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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Day Family Love Ourselves Tragedy
I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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Feeling Myself People Try Value
I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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Chance Goodness Need Space Time Try
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.
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Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
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Decision Man Myself People School
I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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Father Fear Hope Key Myself Optimism See Thinking
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 like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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Act Director Enough Known Myself Page Scene

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