Bennett Miller Quotes
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A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
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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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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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If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.
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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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It's important for an actor to feel like they're really being watched and to receive feedback and encouragement about the aspects of what they're doing that feels truthful - and also to raise awareness when they might be resorting to habits and tricks, which every actor has.
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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 it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.
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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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As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.
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I'm actually not a big reader.
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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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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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I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.
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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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Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
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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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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.