Latest Ben Affleck Quotes from Interviews

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• How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

  Ben Affleck

  School, People, Praying

  Source: app.longform.org

• I don't spend too much time just kicking back.

  Ben Affleck

  Kicking Back, Kicking, Too Much

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

  Ben Affleck

  Kids, Feel Better, Lucky

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It's the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that's really important to me too.

  Ben Affleck

  Careers, Important, Firsts

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

  Ben Affleck

  School, Play, Theater

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

  Ben Affleck

  Children, Thinking, Worldview

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• There's a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there's a lot of compromise that goes with that.

  Ben Affleck

  Romance, Compromise

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

  Ben Affleck

  Trying, Moral, Ifs

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.

  Ben Affleck

  Real, Instinct

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.

  Ben Affleck

  Important, Casting, Aspect

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• 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.

  Ben Affleck

  Space, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Trying, Welcome

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• You have to pay people real money.

  Ben Affleck

  Real, People, Pay

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, Middle East, Different

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• I don't go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: "Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor."

  Ben Affleck

  Waiting, Looks, Lasts

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.

  Ben Affleck

  Choices, Different, Feels

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• (I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Giving, Trying

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.

  Ben Affleck

  Trying, Schedules, Environment

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

  Ben Affleck

  Actors

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

  Ben Affleck

  Different, Film, Approach

  "OSCARS Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, www.yahoo.com. December 19, 2012.

• (As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.

  Ben Affleck

  Ideas, Directors, Lines

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 201.

• It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.

  Ben Affleck

  Views, World, Sense Of Humor

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

  Ben Affleck

  Patterns, Chickens, Flour

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

• If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.

  Ben Affleck

  Car, Track, Giving

  "Justice League: Ben Affleck Says Batman Seeks to 'Redeem Himself' After Brutal BVS". Interview with Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. June 21, 2016.

• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  Ben Affleck

  Philosophy, Taken, Writing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.