114 Quotes by Bennett Miller

The main thing is the character's [Truman Capote's] interior and without getting too deep into it, there are lots of parallels in Phil's [Philip Seymour Hoffman's] life, which I knew and only became more evident with time. There was something about that character that he could own that nobody else could.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

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

I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.

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.

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.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.