Timothy Miller Quotes

#1. To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

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#2. As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.

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#3. Avengers was cool. I liked it. But I feel like we haven't seen this side of the superhero universe. So I think fans want to see it, too. If everything is perfect and shiny and everybody has Quinjets and mansions, it just gets a little ... I don't know. I'm ready for something different.

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#4. Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.

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#5. Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

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#6. I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.

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#7. I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character.

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#8. Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect.

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#9. I got into comics on John Byrne's run of the X-Men and the Dark Phoenix Saga. I got in around X-Men 95, right when it turned to the new X-Men. So that whole family, all those characters are kind of my favorite characters, just the X-Men world.

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#10. Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.

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#11. You'd think I'd be more comfortable with the action, but actually I'm more comfortable with the drama. I mean you get more instant feedback on what you are seeing and you know if it's working or it's not working.

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#12. Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

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#13. I mean Dark Phoenix series, the way it was done, they didn't do it justice in the past movies, in my personal opinion. I just like the X-Men universe.

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#14. I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

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#15. I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.

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#16. I buy my Avengers tickets. But I think people are going to really get into seeing this other side of the world.

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#17. There's a little burst of creativity being director followed by lots and lots of meetings and talking to people and more meetings. It's scary. And I can't believe anybody actually lets me do it. But it's going well so far.

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#18. I think if you do what I want to do creatively, it will also make money for you.

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#19. I think people moving through space and the way they say lines, it's a puzzle to be solved every time. But there's a right way to do it that feels natural. And it's just kind of finding that right thing.

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#20. Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.

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#21. Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

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#22. I'm definitely not afraid to be wrong.

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