Ben Affleck Compares Netflix to an 'Assembly Line'

Ben Affleck is opening up about movie-making.

The 50-year-old Gigli star attended The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday (November 30) after the launch of his new studio with Matt Damon and RedBird Capital Partners, Artist Equity.

During his appearance, he opened up about production quality and Netflix‘s massive offering of content.

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“If you ask [Netflix co-CEO and chairman] Reed Hastings…he’d say, ‘Hey, we went for quantity to establish a footprint,’” he said.

“I’m sure there’s wisdom in that and I’m sure they had a great strategy, but I would have said, ‘How are we going to make 50 great movies? How is that possible?’ There’s no committee big enough. There aren’t enough — you just can’t do it,” he continued.

Ben added that making movies “is a thing that requires attention and dedication and work and it resists the sort of assembly line process…[Netflix’s head of original films] Scott Stuber is a really talented, smart guy who I really like…but it’s an impossible job.”

“There’s bigger audience for action movies than there is for small dramas. I get that,” he said.

“Certain genres play more broadly and you can’t not be mindful of that. But let’s do a good one, let’s surprise the audience, let’s make them care about it.”

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