Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and film editor born on August 12, 1975, in Falmouth.
Affleck attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School before going on to study at both George Washington University and Columbia University. His educational path across multiple institutions reflected a period of formation before he established himself across several areas of the film and television industries.
Working in English-language film and television, Affleck built a career that spans acting on stage and screen, directing, producing, writing, and editing. That range of roles behind and in front of the camera marks him as someone whose involvement in a project can run from the script stage through to the final cut. He has also worked as a voice actor, adding another strand to a professional profile that resists easy categorization as simply a performer.
His on-screen work brought him significant recognition from the industry's major awards bodies. He received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama, and an Academy Award for Best Actor — three of the most prominent honors available to a film actor working in English-language cinema. That trio of awards, all for acting in a leading role, places him among a relatively small group of performers to have collected all three in the same category.
Quotes by Casey Affleck
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It's part of the actor's job to show up with a head full of steam, to have their own take on this. So that way, you're not relying on, 'OK, tell me how to do it.'
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?'
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.
I feel like there's an obligation - this sounds terribly pretentious - if you're an artist, to share your own experience in a way that's truthful and honest: 'This is what I have to share; this is my life.'
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.
Sometimes I pick parts because I think, 'OK, it scares me,' and that's an indication it's going to be a good movie for me to do. Sometimes that leaves me in a terrible... Well, it doesn't always pan out, you know?
I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.
In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.
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.