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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.

Ben Affleck

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
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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Evil Money Root Yourself
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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Gamble Goodness Hard Work Online Seduce Yourself
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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Creation Director Greatness Name Risk Yourself
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.
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Hate See Sex Symbol World Yourself
But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
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Direct Evidence Hard Work Morning Myself
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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Complication Day Direction Function Movie Pay Time Yourself
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.
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Corruption Depression Money Politics Possible Thinking
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
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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Command Criticism Director Insecure Move Myself Reality
I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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Fashion Myself Thinking
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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Appearance Better Burn Learning
Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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Movie Scripture Stuff Watch
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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Business Crazy Kind Movie People
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

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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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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