“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.”

American film director

Bennett Altman Miller is an American film director known for Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director. Miller’s films are marked by carefully observed character studies and by stories drawn from real events or real people. He is best known for directing Capote, the biographical drama about writer Truman Capote, along with Moneyball and Foxcatcher, which brought him wider recognition and award attention.