Quotes by Bennett Miller

Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.

There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

Making a film is a challenge.

I don't know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.

When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.

I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.

Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don't need to shoot a scene because it's going to be cut anyway.

I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.

Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.