114 Quotes by Bennett Miller

If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right movie for you to be making.

Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come pre-digested. You have to bring your own enzymes. It's a more gripping and challenging experience.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.

My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.

I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn't gonna last.

I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.

I like going into a scene knowing that the script isn't quite finished, that there's something that isn't really going to reveal itself until something spontaneously occurs.