Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller
Bennett Milleris an American film director, known for directing the acclaimed films Capote, Moneyball, and Foxcatcher. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 December 1966
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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He works himself into states of crisis and distress, worrying that people are going to know he is a fraud and that his career is over.
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I think the film aspires to do what is often the domain of a novel, which is to express something that is not explicit in life. It's about someone who wants something so bad that he's insensitive to what he's trampling on.
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I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.
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Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.
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I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.
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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.
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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.
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A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.
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For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.
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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
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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.
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People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
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We couldn't have gotten it made without his involvement, without his showing up and saying he believed in us.
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We decided to do something completely different. Writing is the loneliest job in the world. I wanted to capture that solitude. Writers spend a lot of time alone in a room just typing away, and this is the first movie to really show how a writer works.