Bennett Miller Quotes

While shooting for 'Kodi' at Pollachi, I got this new idea for 'VIP 2'.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

What I love most is the art, is making art, acting and being on set, and being a part of the process of making a movie.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.