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 AFFLECKAll I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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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 feel like fame is wasted on me.
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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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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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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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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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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
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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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When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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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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You have to pay people real money.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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