Bennett Miller Quotes

If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

Anybody can relate to anyone on 'Glee' at some point in their life.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

I remember being on a plane a few years ago. And me and this woman sat coldly next to each other for a cross-country trip, fighting over the arm rest the whole time. But then, about an hour before we landed, we noticed that we both had on 'Housewives,' and suddenly, we were best friends.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

Bellator has taken care of me, and I've taken care of them. It's been the perfect storm of a symbiotic relationship - them having an asset they were not willing to lose, and me being in a situation where the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

I thought all good art is you doing exactly what you want to see. I didn't realise that's not even what I really like about art. Bands I liked weren't doing just what they want to do: they were finding their common ground with them and me.

A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.

Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good.

When you reach across the aisle and open your heart and mind, you might just find that you have more in common than you think with the guy on the other side of the fence.

You always feel more attracted to people who play the way you play.