Bennett Miller Quotes

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

I make work not to give answers but to question things.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.

It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

The thing is, not to stop questioning.