Bennett Miller Quotes
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A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
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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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If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.
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Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.
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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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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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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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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'm actually not a big reader.
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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.