Bennett Miller Quotes

You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

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• Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Power
  • Plants
  • Be Prepared

• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Water
  • Religion
  • Color

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • You
  • Audience
  • Crying

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Statistics

• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Lies
  • Young

• Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Live
  • Why

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Text
  • Define

• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Trust
  • Creator
  • Teaches

• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
  • Look

• I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Pride
  • Laugh
  • Marry

• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Turn
  • Wants

• Just making a good movie is hard to do.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Good
  • Movie

• I’ve said many times that statistics reveal a surprising city: one that has more movie theaters than Paris, more abortions than London, more universities than New York. Where nighttime has become sparse, desolate, the kingdom of only a few. Where violence rules, corners us, silences us into a kind of autism.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Movie
  • Universities
  • Theaters

• I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Movie