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… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
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… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.' — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I really tried to get comfortable with the notion of shooting digital on 'Foxcatcher' and just couldn't. I shot many tests and experimented with… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
The version of 'Moneyball' I pitched - and we made - is about a guy, Billy Beane, who thinks he's trying to win baseball… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
If you talk to anybody, among the first things you'll hear is, 'Steve Carell is the nicest guy in the world.' And he is.… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I think Will Ferrell is probably completely evil, the darkest of them all. He is known among comics as the dark knight. An evil,… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
