Ben Affleck Quotes

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies.

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• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

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• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

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• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  

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• If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

  

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• We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

  

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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

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• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  

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• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

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• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

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• There's nothing more American than movies.

  

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• It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

  

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• I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  

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• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

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• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  

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• I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  

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• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

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• I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

  

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• I'm not sure I like making movies that my kids can't go to, but that's just how it is.

  

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• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

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• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

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• Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

  

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• I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Movies
  • Experiences
  • Cinematographer