Bennett Miller Quotes
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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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It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.
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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 one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.
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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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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'm actually not a big reader.
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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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As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.
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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 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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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.