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There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Acknowledged Always Being Ever Every Everything Expressed Happening Moment Much Pretty Scene Something Worked

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

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Amazing Behavior Forgive How How Much Much Truthful Will You

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I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Ballpark Expect Get Going Less Like More More Or Less Only Point Proper Rehearse Take

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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.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Ambition Contemporary Downfall Followed Himself His Kind Larger People Represents Something Success Than Think Those Very Who I Think

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Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Characters Concealed Kubrick Rod Secrets

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The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Different Empty Gun Makes Room Silence Someone Sound Very

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I am nostalgic for those man-behind-the-curtain days when someone could get away with impersonating Kubrick because nobody had any idea what Kubrick looked like.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Am Any Away Because Could Days Get Had Idea Kubrick Like Looked Nobody Nostalgic Someone Those I Am

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The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Kid More Much Observer One Thing Performer Quiet Say Than The One Thing Thing

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As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Filmmaker Less Little Lonely Looking Makes Other Otherwise People Relate Reveal Something World You

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It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: About Actor Atmosphere Being Cameras Characters Creating Front Just Know Live Observed Sensitive Sensitivity

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: December 30th, 1966

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