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" It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that. "
Bennett Miller
Making
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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. "
Bennett Miller
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You
" 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 that that relationship isn't gonna last. "
Bennett Miller
Myself
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" I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things. "
Bennett Miller
Like
Material Things
Fiction
" If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated by means of emotional and symbolic language, you might find that it's the latter elements that absolutely dominate and move people. It makes me want to take that language and expose it. "
Bennett Miller
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You
People
" For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is. "
Bennett Miller
Review
Value
Film
" 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. 'Steve Carell is the greatest guy to work with.' And he is. But all of that belies other aspects that are as true with him. "
Bennett Miller
True
Talk
Him
" I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative. "
Bennett Miller
Feel
Am
Attracted
" There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it. "
Bennett Miller
Education
Money
Politics
" I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things. "
Bennett Miller
I Am
Success
Think
" I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible. "
Bennett Miller
Think
Direction
Content
" I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place. "
Bennett Miller
Place
Spiritual
Fall
" Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain. "
Bennett Miller
Rock
Myself
Mountain
" I am a tumbleweed. I don't have a company. I don't have a staff. I don't own anything - I've never owned a car or an apartment. "
Bennett Miller
Own
Car
Anything
" You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced. "
Bennett Miller
Make
Movie
You
" 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 itself until something spontaneously occurs. "
Bennett Miller
Like
Reveal
Something
" I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective. "
Bennett Miller
Things
Think
Perspective
" Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing. "
Bennett Miller
Business
Love
Decision
" 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 patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process. "
Bennett Miller
End
Patience
You
" People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies. "
Bennett Miller
People
Jokes
Entertainment
" I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion. "
Bennett Miller
Often
Believe
Religion
" 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. "
Bennett Miller
Life
Truth
Truth Is
" 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. "
Bennett Miller
Relationship
Feeling
You
" I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent. "
Bennett Miller
Mind
Think
Where
" A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics. "
Bennett Miller
Film
Critics
Culture