Bennett Miller Quotes

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

The point is to be involved in the moment.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.

I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

I love being completely immersed in everything I do.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.