My movies are unadorned, theyre not particularly fancy, I think theyre kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. – Ben Affleck
But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didnt know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did. – Ben Affleck
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her masters there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didnt go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. – Ben Affleck
I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence. – Ben Affleck
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned. – Jerry Saltz