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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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.
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Capote was an enormously and dangerously ambitious, talented, conflicted guy who really concealed himself from the public. He was at once a very public figure and a very private figure. And this is a movie that sort of peels back the public mask and gets into the heart of darkness.
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The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see.
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It was the perfect gift for Perry, who saw himself, like Thoreau, as an outsider persecuted by society. It made him feel good about himself, which is just what Capote wanted.