Ben Affleck : (3)

" To answer the question, though: I didn’t always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films. " - Ben Affleck

" 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

" The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan. " - Ben Affleck