Bennett Miller Quotes
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I think all good sports movies aren't really about sports.
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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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It couldn't be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.
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I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place.
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I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
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If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.
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Making a film is a challenge.
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A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.
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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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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 am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
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I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn't gonna last.
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If something is to be quietly powerful, it requires more balance than a film that allows for more freneticism.
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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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It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.
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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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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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Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.
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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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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
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Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.
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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 films are inquiries. I've chopped down all the signposts, I really resist taking moral positions.
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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.