#w

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

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#chicks #get #going #i #know

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. ↗

— Peter Agre

#abraham lincoln #act #bill #half #homestead

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#change #curve #digest #easier #had

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#camera #comfortable #front #i #me

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#auditioning #before #character #common #develop

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#boat #death #deck #fish #friends

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #bride #flower #guilty #had

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#agent #any #anything #auditioning #bad