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.
BEN AFFLECKI find forgiveness to be really healthy.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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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Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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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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You get old, you slow down.
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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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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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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 want to thank my wife who I don’t normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with!
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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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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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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.
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I 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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