Cinema Quote by 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 forces from every direction.” quote by Bennett Miller — Download Open image

“Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.”

Bennett Miller

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I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'

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

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I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

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

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