Ben Affleck is the Details Magazine cover boy for its November 2007 issue. Here are some excerpts from his interview:

Dating Jennifer Lopez:

“It was probably bad for my career. What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody. I ended up in an unfortunate crosshair position where I was in a relationship and [the media] mostly lied and inflated a bunch of salacious stuff for the sake of selling magazines. And I paid a certain price for that. Then, in concert with some movies that didn’t work…”

His directorial debut of his new movie, Gone Baby Gone:

“That’s why there’s something really great about directing-about having authorship over something. If you don’t like this movie, I’m the guy to see. I’m the guy to criticize. I take some measure of comfort in that. It’s fair, at least. Listen, I’ve gone out and directed a movie and made it really f—king good. If the movie’s good, people will like it and go see it. All the rest of it is bullshit.”

He also said that he doesn’t see himself or his family living in Los Angeles that much longer. In fact, probably another couple of years - “Professionally it would be difficult. But that’s not as important as that other thing.”

That’s what I love about Ben - such a down to earth guy…More of his interview with Details Magazine is here.

Check out photos of Ben at the Variety Screening Series of Gone Baby Gone…

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