114 Quotes by Bennett Miller

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.

I really tried to get comfortable with the notion of shooting digital on 'Foxcatcher' and just couldn't. I shot many tests and experimented with all sorts of techniques to manipulate it into a place that worked for us, but it just didn't happen.

Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

You can recognize almost immediately if the film you're watching is the product of some kind of a hive mind or the result of a personal vision and genuine collaborations. 'Manchester by the Sea' reminds us of the potential of the latter and, for that reason, is the kind of work that makes me, as a filmmaker, want to continue. It's inspiring.

My films are inquiries. I've chopped down all the signposts, I really resist taking moral positions.

I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.

I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.