Bennett Miller

I'm actually not a big reader.

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller

Making a film is a challenge.

— Bennett Miller

My entire life can fit into a knapsack.

— 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

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

— Bennett Miller

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and…

— Bennett Miller

Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in…

— Bennett Miller

Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come…

— Bennett Miller

I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will…

— Bennett Miller

I think, when I meet a person, in general, it's not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people…

— Bennett Miller

Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that…

— Bennett Miller

I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's…

— Bennett Miller

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

— 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

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

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

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller

I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.

— Bennett Miller

If something is to be quietly powerful, it requires more balance than a film that allows for more freneticism.

— Bennett Miller

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

— Bennett Miller