Latest Casey Affleck Quotes from Interviews

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• Sometimes I feel like every movie I make could be the last. I know that's not really the case, but if I think about it that way and I'm very careful, then maybe I can build a career, movie by movie, that I'm happy with.

  Casey Affleck

  Thinking, Careers, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

  Casey Affleck

  Different, Kind, Different Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'd like to never be able to get pigeonholed, which is difficult to do.

  Casey Affleck

  Able, Difficult

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

  Casey Affleck

  Sports, Baseball, Team

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

  Casey Affleck

  New York, Behavior, Streets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

  Casey Affleck

  New York, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.

  Casey Affleck

  People, Cups, Shirts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

  Casey Affleck

  New York, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

  Casey Affleck

  Tired, Answering Questions, I'm Tired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

  Casey Affleck

  Math, People, Guy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

• I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

  Casey Affleck

  Book, Thinking, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

• Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

  Casey Affleck

  Book, Too Much Information, Information

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

• Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

  Casey Affleck

  Jobs, Character, Emotion

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

• I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.

  Casey Affleck

  Thinking, Problem

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

• A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

  Casey Affleck

  Book, Vision, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

• I like to just keep the land within sight. Nowadays they can tell you if there's a storm three days out. So it's not much of a concern. But I've never been a big boat person. I don't spend a lot of time at sea.

  Casey Affleck

  Land, Sight, Sea

  "Casey Affleck On Why The Finest Hours Should Be Seen In Theaters". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. January 26, 2016.

• When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.

  Casey Affleck

  Eggs, People, Wake Up

  "Casey Affleck On Why The Finest Hours Should Be Seen In Theaters". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. January 26, 2016.

• My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

  Casey Affleck

  Fool, Emotion, Aim

  "Roger Ebert Still Has Questions for Casey Affleck". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2010.

• All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.

  Casey Affleck

  Mean, Hunting, Peaceful

• Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

  Casey Affleck

  People, Sick, Presidential