Bennett Miller Quotes
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As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.
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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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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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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
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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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As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.
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My entire life can fit into a knapsack.
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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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Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don't need to shoot a scene because it's going to be cut anyway.
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I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.
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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 do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.
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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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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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You can recognize almost immediately if the film you're watching is the product of some kind of a hive mind or the result of a personal vision and genuine collaborations. 'Manchester by the Sea' reminds us of the potential of the latter and, for that reason, is the kind of work that makes me, as a filmmaker, want to continue. It's inspiring.
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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 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 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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You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.
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A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
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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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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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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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For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.