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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.

Ben Affleck

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
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
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Beginning Myself Photography Writing
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
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.
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Mom Myself Public School Story Teaching Try War
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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Call Hotel Myself Person Wake Up
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
Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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Knock Marriage People Yourself
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
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
When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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Entertainment Laughter Oneself Person Quite Screen Time
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
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
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
I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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Environment Esteem Growth Home Myself

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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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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