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.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• 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.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Short

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• 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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Competitive
  • Unbelievable

• 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.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Kid

• 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.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Right
  • Times
  • Nine

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Write
  • Comfortable
  • Paper

• 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.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Job
  • Tough
  • Ending

• 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.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Training
  • Easy
  • Week

• People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

  

  Madame Roland
  • People
  • Work
  • Moments

• The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Up
  • Business
  • Poetry

• Should Filipinos decide to have me as their leader, I will ensure that just like in Makati, everyone will benefit from whatever development our country would attain. No one will be left behind.

  

  Jejomar Binay
  • Country

• We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Game
  • Change

• Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Up
  • Money
  • You

• Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.

  

  Bennett Miller