Bennett Miller Quotes

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know if it was true or not.

I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

I look for stories everywhere.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

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.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.