Bennett Miller

Making a film is a challenge. ”

As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence. ”

The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer. ”

The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty. ”

If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated by means of emotional and symbolic language, you might find that it's the latter elements that absolutely dominate and move people. It makes me want to take that language and expose it. ”

There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged. ”

I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect. ”

It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with. ”

I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is. ”

I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things. ”