Kelly Reichardt

I can laugh at anything.

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm a pretty boring person.

— Kelly Reichardt

Actors can make your film better.

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm a sucker for Kurt Vile.

— Kelly Reichardt

I have a lot of respect for the art of acting.

— Kelly Reichardt

I enjoy people most when I'm away from them.

— Kelly Reichardt

Lack of community, or each man for himself, is a bad idea.

— Kelly Reichardt

Google is not research. Research is a lived thing.

— Kelly Reichardt

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm still the person on my friend's couch, and I'd like to own the couch.

— Kelly Reichardt

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

— Kelly Reichardt

I can't stand bed and breakfasts. I don't want to have to have breakfast with people.

— Kelly Reichardt

My films are just glimpses of people passing through.

— Kelly Reichardt

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

— Kelly Reichardt

The A-brain is always less appealing than the B-brain. And as an A-brainer myself, I know how annoying that is.

— Kelly Reichardt

I edit because that's where you learn how to direct, really. All the answers of what you should have done are in…

— Kelly Reichardt

A long time ago, I felt like, 'If you don't want me, I don't want you,' so I've carved my way around…

— Kelly Reichardt

As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to…

— Kelly Reichardt

When I write, I mostly listen to Alice Coltrane or Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, something that's not distracting but that keeps you from thinking…

— Kelly Reichardt

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure…

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm not great with the production of real life - the car, the insurance, the dentist - all those things that seem…

— Kelly Reichardt

It all just seems everything is getting faster. Faster, faster, faster - we all want things faster. I guess there is a…

— Kelly Reichardt

I get nervous premiering a new film because it's the beginning of entering the world of talking about the movie. You're going…

— Kelly Reichardt

There's this idea, especially in the Western, of this powerful white man, and really what strength does that take to be? Try…

— Kelly Reichardt

I like going off and making films in private, where the hassles of everyday life aren't there. And also, selfishly, you're taking…

— Kelly Reichardt

I think that's the process of filmmaking all the way through: building things and taking it apart and building it, and, you…

— Kelly Reichardt

In my world, when I'm making work, when I go to my core group of people that I've been going to for…

— Kelly Reichardt

A lot of our scripts are based on this question of 'What is our responsibility to each other?' 'What are we meant…

— Kelly Reichardt

If I'm going to shoot a damn, I'm going to storyboard it. I have a shot list for what I want to…

— Kelly Reichardt

Being at Bard puts me in a world where I feel like I'm in a constant conversation about film that I find…

— Kelly Reichardt

A scene does have a life of its own.

— Kelly Reichardt

My brain doesn't work in a different kind of way.

— Kelly Reichardt

I don't Google myself, I don't look at that. I just don't want to know.

— Kelly Reichardt

There's no such thing as making a film without stress.

— Kelly Reichardt

One thing you learn over and over again is to trust your own instincts.

— Kelly Reichardt

I don't work with computers. I'd never played a video game.

— Kelly Reichardt

I had many, many, many jobs that drain you more than feed you.

— Kelly Reichardt

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

— Kelly Reichardt