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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.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Baseball Boredom Clock Closer Excitement Experience Intense Life Like Moments Monotony Our Over Periods Prolonged Represents Something Sometimes Terror Think Until I Think

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If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated by means of emotional and symbolic language, you might find that it's the latter elements that absolutely dominate and move people. It makes me want to take that language and expose it.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Absolutely Being Campaign Dominate Elements Emotional Expose Find Language Latter Like Literal Makes Me Means Might Move Narrative Out Parcel People Political Political Campaign Sense Something Symbolic Take Track Want You

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

~Bennett Miller

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I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place.

~Bennett Miller

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There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Almost Almost Everything Anything Arts Between Certainly Control Corrupt Creativity Education Everything Hardly Journalism Money Politics Relationship Susceptible Tendency Uneasy Up Very Whether

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

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Examine Fiction Hardly Like Material Material Things Mostly Nonfiction Read Things

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You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Appreciated Embraced Like Make Movie Respected You

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

~Bennett Miller

Topics: About Am Enable Feel Gene Happiness Kind Missing Most People Success Them Things Think I Think I Am

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

~Bennett Miller

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I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.

~Bennett Miller

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: December 30th, 1966

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