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
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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 very hard now that the film is done and you can look at it to appreciate the magnitude of the risk he took and the possibility of horrible, embarrassing failure. Think about this character. Think about who Capote was. And think about Phil Hoffman, who's basically like a big guy with a baseball cap with a deep voice.
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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.
You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.
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I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.
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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
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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.
I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.
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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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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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I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.
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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 I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.