Bennett Miller Quotes
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My films are inquiries. I've chopped down all the signposts, I really resist taking moral positions.
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Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
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As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.
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I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.
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Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.
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What I will say - one thing that is attractive about getting a real film made within the studio system is that studio systems, with their marketing and distribution, have real power.
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Making a film is a challenge.
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Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
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I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.
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A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.
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It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.
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I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.
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It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.
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I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.
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I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
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I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.
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Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.
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People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and an unending insecurity. It's a very American thing because back in the past, we lost our fathers or father. The king.
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My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.
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I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.
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I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.
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If you talk to anybody, among the first things you'll hear is, 'Steve Carell is the nicest guy in the world.' And he is. 'Steve Carell is the greatest guy to work with.' And he is. But all of that belies other aspects that are as true with him.
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If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right movie for you to be making.
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My entire life can fit into a knapsack.