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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’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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Failure Hold Movie Myself Work
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
Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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Change Forever Ourselves People
I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it’s not even a meritocracy. It’s about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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Appearance Man Myself World
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
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.
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Celebrity Currency Myself Start Way
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
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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Dangerous War
I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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Fashion Myself Thinking
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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Change Pay Price 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
It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
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Hands Leaving Life Realize Yourself
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.
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Basement Hostel Mad Mom Myself Stay
I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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Feeling Myself People Try Value
You don’t know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you’re going to get some good fried chicken.
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Food Goodness Known Pattern

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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