You have to pay people real money.
BEN AFFLECKStudios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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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’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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 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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I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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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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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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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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I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
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