American - Director | December 30, 1966 -
Making a film is a challenge.
Bennett Miller
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It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.
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There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.
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Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.
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Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
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I think all good sports movies aren't really about sports.
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I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'
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If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.
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