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Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!

All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.

We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done

Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

The New Heaven and New Earth are like a double Millennium, Millennium for ever!-Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Heaven that's never done!

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.

You can't go back. Once it's done, it's done. I'm sure there will be things that I would love to change, in the future, but each movie is a snapshot of its time and the resources, and you do your best on it.

I have a fun time, doing the meet and greets, the pictures and the autographs. Every show I've ever done, lends itself to that kind of thing. My convention life has legs.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.

I can't believe I've done what I've done.

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.