Bennett Miller

I'm actually not a big reader.

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

— Bennett Miller

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

— Bennett Miller

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

— Bennett Miller

My entire life can fit into a knapsack.

— Bennett Miller

Making a film is a challenge.

— Bennett Miller

The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.

— Bennett Miller

The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller

I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.

— Bennett Miller

Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.

— Bennett Miller

Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.

— Bennett Miller

Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.

— Bennett Miller

My films are inquiries. I've chopped down all the signposts, I really resist taking moral positions.

— Bennett Miller

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…

— Bennett Miller

Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable…

— Bennett Miller

As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little…

— Bennett Miller

It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for…

— Bennett Miller

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have…

— Bennett Miller

My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.

— Bennett Miller

If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right…

— Bennett Miller

The version of 'Moneyball' I pitched - and we made - is about a guy, Billy Beane, who thinks he's trying to…

— Bennett Miller

You can recognize almost immediately if the film you're watching is the product of some kind of a hive mind or the…

— Bennett Miller

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…

— Bennett Miller

I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that…

— Bennett Miller

I definitely have moments in my life where I discovered a film, and the language of the film itself spoke to me…

— Bennett Miller

I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit…

— Bennett Miller

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…

— Bennett Miller

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and…

— Bennett Miller

People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an…

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

— Bennett Miller

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

— Bennett Miller

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

— Bennett Miller

Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way…

— Bennett Miller