Bennett Miller Quotes

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.