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.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Truth
  • Emotions
  • Own

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• 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.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Country
  • Power
  • Energy

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Sometimes
  • Care
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mind
  • City
  • Crazy

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• 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.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Work
  • Try
  • Playground

• I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Servant
  • Recollection

• People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Like
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Start

• People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Love
  • Capable

• But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.

  

  Peter Sarsgaard
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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  • Work
  • Together

• 'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Smart

• Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Bennett Miller
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