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Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller
American Director
Born: Dec 30, 1966
Am Film Me People Think You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author. Bennett Miller
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People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and an unending insecurity. It's a very American thing because back in the past, we lost our fathers or father. The king. Bennett Miller
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You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced. Bennett Miller
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A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics. Bennett Miller
Culture Critics Support Make Without Cannot Film
People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies. Bennett Miller
Entertainment Jokes People Excitement Attracted Attractive Sure Still False Stories Fantasies Might
It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that. Bennett Miller
Great Seen Enjoy Embraced Having Making Really Film
Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing. Bennett Miller
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I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative. Bennett Miller
Feel Attracted Does Am Anything Derivative
You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process. Bennett Miller
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I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn't gonna last. Bennett Miller
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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. Bennett Miller
Finished Something Scene Like Spontaneously Until Knowing Reveal Occurs Itself Going Quite Script Really
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. Bennett Miller
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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. Bennett Miller
Work Something More Support Almost Anonymously Years Then Satisfying Received
There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged. Bennett Miller
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It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful. Bennett Miller
You Amazing Behavior Will How How Much Truthful Forgive Much
Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters. Bennett Miller
Secrets Characters Concealed Kubrick Rod
The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty. Bennett Miller
Silence Gun Someone Empty Makes Sound Very Different Room
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. Bennett Miller
Those Someone Could Had Idea Nobody Days Like Looked Because Am Kubrick Get Any Nostalgic Away
The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer. Bennett Miller
Say Kid One Thing More Observer Performer Than Quiet The One Thing Much Thing
As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely. Bennett Miller
You People World Lonely Looking Other Relate Otherwise Something Reveal Makes Little Less Filmmaker
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. Bennett Miller
Good Films Something Take Budget Make Sake Going Just Want Based
There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it. Bennett Miller
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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. Bennett Miller
Entertainment Heart Met Mark Entertainment Industry Dave He Industry Sort Anyone Biggest Explanation Ever Needed
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. Bennett Miller
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I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect. Bennett Miller
Great Think Eye Some Feels Like Effect Truthfulness Being Nose Subtle Sensitivity Actor Watched
I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right. Bennett Miller
Great World Will Ambition Worlds Characters Reconcile Somehow Attracted Make Am Where Themselves Who Right Things Belong Imagine
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