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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
When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for. Bennett Miller
People Looking Other Mark Incredibly Bit About Seemed Attracted Learned Answer Different Little Little Bit Different People Notion Moment Each Found
Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant. Bennett Miller
Love Love Is Brilliant Sandler Adam Adam Sandler
Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking. Bennett Miller
Chemistry Think Component Casting Exists Very Filmmaking
Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters. Bennett Miller
Silence You Experience Matters Films Alive Vital Seeing Absorb Least Still Quiet Where Really Moment Film Present Watching
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. Bennett Miller
Events Settle Waves Everything See Bottom Instead Like Make Making Want Things
Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction. Bennett Miller
You People Every Direction Unrealistic Participation Forces Expect Going Requires Many Cooperation Challenged Filmmaking
There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me. Bennett Miller
Politics Me Too Much Feeling Control Too Paradox Takes Feels Govern Get Trying Elected Much Things Necessarily
I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is. Bennett Miller
Think Factual Fair How Opposed Truthful Ask Film
If something is to be quietly powerful, it requires more balance than a film that allows for more freneticism. Bennett Miller
Balance Something More Powerful Than Quietly Requires Film
As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for. Bennett Miller
You People Understand Lot Get Want Ask Filmmaker
My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena. Bennett Miller
Nature Try Past Back Layers Look Understand Motives Truths Behind Psychological Apparent Phenomena Pull
I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong. Bennett Miller
Together People Embark Find Something Attracted Stories Places Themselves Who Belong
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. Bennett Miller
Me Ambition Would Would-Be Easy Find Absurd Feel Like Want After
I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it. Bennett Miller
Challenge Past See About Faces Something Like Look Truths Behind Really Notions Apparent Many Thing
Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth. Bennett Miller
Truth Good Sometimes Way Telling Good Story Facts Get Story
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