Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller
Bennett Milleris an American film director, known for directing the acclaimed films Capote, Moneyball, and Foxcatcher. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 December 1966
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
argued break capote entered exactly insisted longer performance philip thinking truman wrong
Philip insisted it would be wrong for him to break down and be so emotional. But, of course, when we rolled camera, he proceeded to do exactly what he'd argued against. It's what makes his performance feel so real. When he entered a scene, he was no longer thinking like an actor. He was thinking like Truman Capote would think.
capote gift good outsider perfect saw
It was the perfect gift for Perry, who saw himself, like Thoreau, as an outsider persecuted by society. It made him feel good about himself, which is just what Capote wanted.
agree loved philip stark
I wanted everything to be a stark look. I don't know how many actors would agree to do a film without makeup. Philip loved the idea.
believed gotten saying showing
We couldn't have gotten it made without his involvement, without his showing up and saying he believed in us.
feels good hope last people pleased reach roots
It feels good. It really does. It feels good because you want the film to have a life. You want it to put its roots down and become a fixture of the culture, and these are indicators that the film will last and that it will reach people and that's what you hope for, so I'm really pleased about it.
amount carry darkness fair figure life people private public side unlike
Unlike most films, it examines a side of a person's life that's hidden, and I think there's a lot of people who carry around a fair amount of darkness and keep it private for a lifetime. The film is about a very public figure and his very private tragedy.
capote concealed figure gets guy heart himself mask private public sort
Capote was an enormously and dangerously ambitious, talented, conflicted guy who really concealed himself from the public. He was at once a very public figure and a very private figure. And this is a movie that sort of peels back the public mask and gets into the heart of darkness.
capote downfall followed larger people represents
Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.
absolutely destroyed
(Capote) got everything he wanted. He got absolutely everything he wanted, and in so doing, he destroyed himself.
character core guy phil
Phil was able to ... take the physicality of the character and really ingest it and own it completely so that he could really get to the core of this guy and play the complexities.
attracted might people stories
People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
bought business caught check life money obsess pay stock truth
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.
You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.
believe god religion
I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.