Casey Affleck

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else.

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

A lot of the times, I end up having to do jobs to sort of pay the bills.

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

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.'

Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.

I've chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were challenging and a little bit scary.

Most of my acting jobs have resulted in a series of mortifying revelations spread over years and years following the shoot.

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

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

What I learned on 'To Die For,' I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.