Bennett Miller Quotes

Bennett Miller

Profession : Director

Birth : December 30, 1966

I am a tumbleweed. I don't have a company. I don't have a staff. I don't own anything - I've never owned a car or an apartment.

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As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.

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I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place.

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Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

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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.

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Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

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I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.

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I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.

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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.

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I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

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You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

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I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

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I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.

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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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A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

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I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

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People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.

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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.

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My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

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I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.

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