Casey Affleck Quotes

To be able to work with my idols is incredible. You learn so much, and they're wonderful as people, too.

I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

I worked with Mike Nichols. First time I worked with Mike Nichols, I just really loved this man.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers.

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

Anurag Sir is someone I have always looked up to and hoped to work with, like many other actors. It's a tremendous opportunity to be collaborating with him on my first film; I really feel fortunate. His conviction in me is very valuable.

I can only be inspired if I'm working with people that I really respect.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

Chris Carter is just a fantastic guy, I have enjoyed working for him, immensely. I loved this character. I don't think I can say enough about Chris. It's just a fantastic thing that he's created and I'm so thrilled that I've been a part of it. I'm very grateful.

I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.