I don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
BEN AFFLECKYou have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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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 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.
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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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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Its not who you love. Its how.
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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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I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It’s the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that’s really important to me too.
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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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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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There’s a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there’s a lot of compromise that goes with that.
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You have to pay people real money.
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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