He'd done lead in two other movies that didn't ever catch on. I think he wanted to be more involved and help apply some of the lessons that he'd learned.
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He was the only choice. He was going to do it or we weren't going to do it. I've known Phil for 21 years now, and I feel I know him inside and out, and other than him being an incredible actor, a shaman-like actor, I will say that everything in this movie that gets revealed through this character are things that Phil knows.Bennett Miller
He works himself into states of crisis and distress, worrying that people are going to know he is a fraud and that his career is over.
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It feels good. It really does. It feels good because you want the film to have a life. You want it to put its roots down and become a fixture of the culture, and these are indicators that the film will last and that it will reach people and that's what you hope for, so I'm really pleased about it.
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It's a tragedy, it's a classic tragedy. In a way, he's got a character flaw that is going to cause his destruction, and it's not going to come from the outside it's going to come from the inside of him.
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We decided to do something completely different. Writing is the loneliest job in the world. I wanted to capture that solitude. Writers spend a lot of time alone in a room just typing away, and this is the first movie to really show how a writer works.
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This isn't really a biography. It's a tragedy.
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