Bennett Miller Quotes

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.

Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

The true poem rests between the words.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

I like playing guys where it's as important what they're thinking as what they're saying. Those are the people I like playing, and the actor that I strive to be. I like actors who work in that area and I like parts that allow me to work in that area.

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying