114 Quotes by Bennett Miller

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.

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

(Capote) got everything he wanted. He got absolutely everything he wanted, and in so doing, he destroyed himself.

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.

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.

He was the only choice. He was going to do it or we weren't going to do it.

He can't put on a uniform and go to work. He cannot be conventional. But you can see in the movie -- he has a very positive and optimistic attitude, though there is evident frustration and anger.

He'd done lead in two other movies that didn't ever catch on. I think he wanted to be more involved and help apply some of the lessons that he'd learned.

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.