Bennett Miller Quotes

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

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• I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Style
  • Now
  • Doctor

• There are programs that don't work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Programs

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Back

• The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Enough
  • Talking

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Star

• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Play
  • Him
  • Phone

• Every single day I'm shocked.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Single
  • Day
  • Every

• I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Like

• Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Time
  • Gym

• Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Help

• People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.

  

  Kate Spade
  • People
  • Organization
  • Start

• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Responsibility

• Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs. And I really don't want to ruin the illusions people may create for themselves.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • May
  • Future

• It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • May
  • Friend
  • Folly

• I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Star

• I've never been a great one for technology.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Never

• I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • School
  • Day
  • Myself

• So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Men
  • Black
  • Savage

• I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.

  

  Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Country
  • Why
  • High

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the integration of speeches - but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
  • America
  • Energy
  • Latin

• It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

  

  Bennett Miller