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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It's more evidence that it's about the heart of the thing more than the magnitude of it. Not a David and Goliath thing. Small films, big films, it's not the size of the film that matters.
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It's a tragedy, it's a classic tragedy. In a way, he's got a character flaw that is going to cause his destruction, and it's not going to come from the outside; it's going to come from the inside of him.
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It's very hard now that the film is done and you can look at it to appreciate the magnitude of the risk he took and the possibility of horrible, embarrassing failure. Think about this character. Think about who Capote was. And think about Phil Hoffman, who's basically like a big guy with a baseball cap with a deep voice.
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The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see.
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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.
He was the only choice. He was going to do it or we weren't going to do it.
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He was the only choice. He was going to do it or we weren't going to do it. I've known Phil for 21 years now, and I feel I know him inside and out, and other than him being an incredible actor, a shaman-like actor, I will say that everything in this movie that gets revealed through this character are things that Phil knows.
You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.
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Unlike most films, it examines a side of a person's life that's hidden, and I think there's a lot of people who carry around a fair amount of darkness and keep it private for a lifetime. The film is about a very public figure and his very private tragedy.
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I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.