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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.

Ben Affleck

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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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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Human Myself Nature
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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You get old, you slow down.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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You have to pay people real money.
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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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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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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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I don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
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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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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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