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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Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.
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Violence recoils on the violent.
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You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.
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Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
