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 AFFLECKI kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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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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The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that.
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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’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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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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