Bennett Miller Quotes
It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.
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We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy.
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We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.
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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
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It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.
