Ben Affleck
Related ARTHUR MILLER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our... CASEY AFFLECK CRAIG GROESCHEL FRANK ABAGNALE For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the mo... GILBERT HERNANDEZ TED TURNER IKE TURNER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our... CASEY AFFLECK It was a good movie; it has a good story and good screenwriter. It brings contemporary issues into a... ROBERT THOMPSON FLANNERY O'CONNOR To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN I was so moved that he respected his enemy that much that I kept it. It was obvious to me that this ... FRED WHITEHURST For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story. EMMANUEL LUBEZKI SARA SHEPARD MICHAEL KEATON The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. Tha... CAMERON CROWE Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" MARGARET MCMULLAN Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's... JEFF GILES 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON It moved me enormously. I kept thinking about the terrible things that man was able to do to other m... MARC ASH DAN AYKROYD GAVIN HOOD In this case it was a very specific festival for a specific movie. You couldn't have asked for a bet... HERB NANAS One of the first things I saw before making this, just by coincidence, was this old black and white ... JAMES GARTNER I think about the movie 'Jaws.' They had this state-of-the-art animatronic shark, but it kep... TOM ELLIS That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters... MING-NA WEN That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was... LAWRENCE KASDAN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN STEVEN STRAIT GERARD WAY ROBERT DOWNEY JR. This is a movie that is special.... It's about violence and society, ... Look, we need help on this.... JOEL SILVER From 1945 to 1995, it was the greatest story never told - until the movie came out. EZRA HILL ANTHONY T. HINCKS 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON June was best friends with Robert Duvall, and I was directing a movie with Duvall and they were cons... JAMES KEACH ROBERT RODRIGUEZ That story was something I've never had occasion to discuss publicly, ... I assigned it because I wa... HOWELL RAINES Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to re... GRETCHEN CARLSON JOHN KRASINSKI I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award fo... JOHN KESSEL One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Af... JOE MORTON Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... LILI SIMMONS She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t... MARGARET MCMULLAN Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK Hemingway invited him to Havana for some weekends and the movie is really about what happens when he... ROGER DONALDSON ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. CALVIN JOHNSON CHINUA ACHEBE [Henley says the Vice movie is ultimately] a story that revolves around these characters [Crockett &... COLIN FARRELL JET LI HARRY STYLES These homes tell this story about what we were thinking about life and how we were shaping it. They ... JEANNE LAMBIN STEPHEN CHBOSKY JOHN HENCH CRISTIANO RONALDO It is a different way to try to teach people that Special Olympic athletes and people with disabilit... LAURA GREMELSBACKER When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing. ALEXANDRE AJA People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It w... CECILIA BARTOLI The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a... JJ ABRAMS KEITH HARING Everyone in Hollywood wanted a role in this movie. Everyone wanted to have a part in it. I feel so l... ALEXANDER LUDWIG In Aruba, I don't know what the situation is there, but it was interesting that these young men coul... FRANKIE BAILEY ANONYMOUS Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed... ASIF KAPADIA CLARK GREGG Look, this is not a movie for kids. It is a movie that does put that violence in context and it show... MICHAEL MEDVED JOHN LASSETER Hurricane Charley was the most memorable story I had to cover. It was an emotional attachment since ... JIM MCLAUGHLIN BEBE REXHA He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL LINDSEY STIRLING KIRK HAMMETT DAVID EDWARDS The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she... GAL GADOT It was just a huge story for our little paper to cover. It was for us what Katrina is for people dow... DENNY DAVIS DEBASISH MRIDHA I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love sto... TED DEMME She was a very tough woman. But it seemed that she was very tender, she was very sweet, and I think ... EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm in. It was prom, the whole thing is like a movie, so making it into a movie ... it was like the ... BEN ADRIAN RYAN GOSLING 'Tower Heist?' That is a movie that it's hard not to name-drop, but, it's a crew of ... MICHAEL PENA GRAHAM MOORE RALPH FIENNES I saw that there is no Nature,ALBERTO CAEIRO The divestitures required by the department will ensure that competition at movie theaters in the af... THOMAS BARNETT DEYTH BANGER CONNOR FRANTA THOMAS PAINE SHAWN ASHMORE DONALD MILLER The program was very beneficial. It was big of him to tell his story. I think he is the best speaker... COURTNEY CUNNINGHAM REBECCA SOLNIT ORLANDO BLOOM
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CASEY AFFLECK What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little... CASEY AFFLECK I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent ... CASEY AFFLECK I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, deli... CASEY AFFLECK I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was... CASEY AFFLECK I'm not that into the fake meat anymore. The familiar texture makes the transition from meat to soy ... CASEY AFFLECK When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy... CASEY AFFLECK Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? CASEY AFFLECK But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate. CASEY AFFLECK My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we... CASEY AFFLECK They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judg... CASEY AFFLECK I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commerc... CASEY AFFLECK I once came out of the hotel, and Brad Pitt was in front of me. There were all these fans out there ... CASEY AFFLECK I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death. CASEY AFFLECK They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judg... CASEY AFFLECK I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death. CASEY AFFLECK The thing about Interview is that it's very flattering. I guess that's all most magazines are. They ... CASEY AFFLECK I also learned to separate my experience on the set from how I felt about my performance in the movi... 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