#on

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#ask #consolation #find #i #me

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

#any #anyone #could #day #did

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#ever #exploding #explosion #god #god help

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#did #environment #esteem #getting #grew

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#because #conversation #directly #get #i

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#attracted #head #i #little #long

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#blame #clooney #credit #entirely #george

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#ambition #itself #often #parent #though

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#another #answer #direct #direction #films

What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#everywhere #go #happens #image #internet