How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
BEN AFFLECKI 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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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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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I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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You have to pay people real money.
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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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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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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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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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