Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

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

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

If you're a director and someone shows up and asks how I do it, I'd imagine, as a director, you're like, 'Man, I've got a million decisions to make; can you show up with an idea for the scene?'

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

There isn't any sibling rivalry; I think we have very different, very individual career paths and have never really thought that way. He's my brother. I only have one, and we're very close. We wouldn't ever allow that stuff affect our relationship.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

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.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

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.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

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

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

Things are never crystal clear, but at some point, they reveal themselves to you. You just hope it happens when you're still on set.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

I think there's a certain amount of pressure depending on how demanding the part is, depending on how great the material is. I feel a certain amount of pressure to rise to the occasion.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

I guess people think if you're well-known, it's perfectly fine to say anything you want. I don't know why that is. But it shouldn't be, because everybody has families and lives.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

I've written some love letters in my life, I can say.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

I feel really lucky to have been able to not only have him as a brother - because I love him and he's such a smart guy and an interesting, fun guy - but also have a friend to go through and chart and navigate the waters of Hollywood, which can be kind of alienating and lonely at times just because everyone is always... you know what it's like.

Casey Affleck
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.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

When you're the younger brother, usually it's not that common that you're having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.

Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck

I've seen 'Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' about 25 times each, so I like all kinds of movies, but I'm drawn, as an actor, to dramas about humans living lives I can relate to.