Bennett Miller Quotes
Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
