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
Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."
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.
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.
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.
Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'
A good leader needs to know how to follow.
I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'
I'm tired of playing the brat.
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 friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.
I have a very bad relationship with mice.