Ben Affleck Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

  Ben Affleck

  Mom, Jobs, Couple

• After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, Frustrated, Acting

  ""Argo" director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

• I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

  Ben Affleck

  Play, Giving, Acting

• 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.

• My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

  Ben Affleck

  Writing, Thinking, Acting

  "Ben Affleck: Filmmaker of the Year 2012" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 15, 2012.

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