Bennett Miller Quotes
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As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.
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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 nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.
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The version of 'Moneyball' I pitched - and we made - is about a guy, Billy Beane, who thinks he's trying to win baseball games. But it's deeper than that.
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If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated by means of emotional and symbolic language, you might find that it's the latter elements that absolutely dominate and move people. It makes me want to take that language and expose it.
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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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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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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
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I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'
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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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The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.
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I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.
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You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.
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Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.
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I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'
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My entire life can fit into a knapsack.
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I think Will Ferrell is probably completely evil, the darkest of them all. He is known among comics as the dark knight. An evil, evil man and a dangerous soul.
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I am nostalgic for those man-behind-the-curtain days when someone could get away with impersonating Kubrick because nobody had any idea what Kubrick looked like.
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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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The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
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I'm actually not a big reader.
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Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.
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I think, when I meet a person, in general, it's not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people you know well constantly remain open.
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A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.