My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She’s definitely got some war stories.
BEN AFFLECKI feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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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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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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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.
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I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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