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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
Day Me You Patience Confidence Something Ten Scene Through Write Writers Without Editors Discover Versions End Get Going Process Then Worked Producers Require Hard Who Original Actor
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
Myself Relationship Patience People Tolerance Tremendous Tremendous Amount Someone More Take Pushing Feel Know Doing Impulse Gonna Apologize Working Inhibit Ever Amount Last Need
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
Myself Me Will Before Difficult Otherwise Project Kind Find Push Excited Make Sure Rock Proverbial Years Up Very Mountain Middle Want Keeps Thing Two
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
Every Everything Pretty Something Scene Always Being Happening Acknowledged Worked Much Moment Expressed Ever
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
Education Politics Relationship Creativity Money Control Everything Corrupt Tendency Almost Journalism Between Almost Everything Untouched Up Very Uneasy Susceptible Arts Anything Whether Certainly Hardly
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
Feedback Important Encouragement Awareness Every Tricks About Habits Feel Feels Like Also Doing Truthful Being Which Might Really Aspects Actor Receive Watched Raise
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
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
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