[The hard times aren't over, Affleck cautioned.] Ultimately it's hard (to make a movie), especially with a low budget, ... He's not going to see his wife and kid or be able to sleep.

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

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.

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.

A low budget is uncomfortable.