black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Ben Affleck

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
BEN AFFLECK

Divorce Experience Life Myself Pleasant Suffering World
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Failure Hold Movie Myself Work
I’m human, just like anybody else.
BEN AFFLECK

Human Myself Nature
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Creation Director Greatness Name Risk Yourself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Chance Goodness Need Space Time Try
A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
BEN AFFLECK

Call Client Himself Question Reason Sale
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Aspect Body Children Difference Feeling Life Myself Reach Vulnerable
Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
BEN AFFLECK

Movie Scripture Stuff Watch
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
BEN AFFLECK

Charge Education Library Money Public Wasted Time Yourself
If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
BEN AFFLECK

Corruption Depression Money Politics Possible Thinking
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Greatness Hollywood People Realistic Thinking
You have to pay people real money.
BEN AFFLECK

Money Pay People Reality
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
BEN AFFLECK

Color Hairs Myself Photography
I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
BEN AFFLECK

Goodness Instinct Myself Reality
If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
BEN AFFLECK

Define Moral Ourselves Price Try Universe
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
BEN AFFLECK

Decision Man Myself People School
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Direct Evidence Hard Work Morning Myself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Food Goodness Known Pattern
I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
BEN AFFLECK

Failure Myself Permission Success Try
It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
BEN AFFLECK

Actor Childhood Fantasy Movie Myself Thief
It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
BEN AFFLECK

Knock Life Yourself
I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
BEN AFFLECK

Home Myself Time Woman
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
BEN AFFLECK

Energy Internet Voice World
Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
BEN AFFLECK

Knock Marriage People Yourself
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
BEN AFFLECK

Beginning Myself Photography Writing
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Act Director Enough Known Myself Page Scene

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Affleck Quotes