Casey Affleck

I feel like I've been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years, and I want to work a lot more. So if I can find something that just happens right away as a director, I'll do it if I really love it, but otherwise, I want to keep working as an actor and getting better.

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

It's really fun when a scene doesn't work.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

Is it really every 10 years that you get to work on a great movie? That can't be.

I have been lucky enough to work with people who inspire me, who I admire and respect, and who have made films - before working with me - that I continually return to over the years because they are so good.

The first thing that I remember auditioning for was a weather commercial in Boston, and I got the job. The idea of the commercial was that you ought to watch the weather in the morning so that you know what's gonna come later in the day.