Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck, better known as Casey Affleck, is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer. He first came to attention for his performances in Gus Van Sant's films To Die For, Good Will Hunting, and Gerry. He appeared in the Ocean's Trilogy, a caper comedy film series, as Virgil Malloy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 August 1975
CityFalmouth, MA
CountryUnited States of America
You sleep with people all the time that you hate.
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.
What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
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.
I have a very bad relationship with mice.
Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.
A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.
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.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
I also learned to separate my experience on the set from how I felt about my performance in the movie. Because most of the time I just hate myself.
After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.