Bennett Miller Quotes
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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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A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
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As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.
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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.
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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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If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.
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I'm actually not a big reader.
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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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Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.
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I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.
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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 don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.
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I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.
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Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.
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I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.
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I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.
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Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
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I like going into a scene knowing that the script isn't quite finished, that there's something that isn't really going to reveal itself until something spontaneously occurs.