Kelly Reichardt

I've never made a film where I don't have final cut. And I can't imagine doing that. That just seems like it…

— Kelly Reichardt

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because…

— Kelly Reichardt

I can edit on my own schedule. No one gives me notes outside the same friends who I've been showing my films…

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm not about the future. I'm definitely not about the future. I want to live to see it, but I'm wary of…

— Kelly Reichardt

I've just always been interested in heists. I like to dig around and read about them when they come up - they're…

— Kelly Reichardt

It's good that Agnes Varda is so central now to any conversation about independent cinema - but at the same time -…

— Kelly Reichardt

Friendship has made my life so rich and making things with people who are your friends... these are now decades-long relationships that…

— Kelly Reichardt

I have this little prayer I say, where I tell myself that the lack of means is somehow working in my favour.…

— Kelly Reichardt

It's funny, every time I start work on a new script, it feels like I'm going outside my comfort zone. But by…

— Kelly Reichardt

Jon Raymond and I are in each other's worlds, and we have a similar political point of view and interest in people.…

— Kelly Reichardt

I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism…

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm from Miami, and the Pacific Northwest is just, the visualness of it, was so extremely different than Miami, where I came…

— Kelly Reichardt

About the time 'The Half-Life' came out, I read it, and it was by Jonathan Raymond, who lives in Oregon, and grew…

— Kelly Reichardt

Personally, festivals have only helped me. As harsh as people like to be on Sundance, for instance, Sundance has only helped hugely.…

— Kelly Reichardt

Well, by now, I hope people would know the films of Peggy Ahwesh. I actually stole the title of 'Certain Women' from…

— Kelly Reichardt

My movies end up being about the moments of getting from here to there, but not in a grand way. Getting from…

— Kelly Reichardt

With the closures of art schools and the drop-off in humanities, you can see where that's a direct loss for the country.

— Kelly Reichardt

I got my heart broken to find out that the independent film community was so unwelcoming. It was not open to women…

— Kelly Reichardt

It's an imperfect situation, but I find it easier to be mad at myself than to be mad at other people because…

— Kelly Reichardt

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one…

— Kelly Reichardt

When I was scouting 'Night Moves,' the guy showing me around happened to have nine fingers. It turned out that he blows…

— Kelly Reichardt

I was asked to be part of a Hal Ashby documentary with the premise that Ashby is overlooked. I love 'Shampoo' but…

— Kelly Reichardt

The idea that keeps reappearing in the films I've made is this question about the individual versus the person in a community,…

— Kelly Reichardt

To me I just thought of the tough guys as like these silly Muppets. But getting through life, the heroic thing is…

— Kelly Reichardt

Every time I watch a history of cinema - or a documentary on film - it will show eleven men talking about…

— Kelly Reichardt

I remember when I was first trying to make 'Night Moves' I was working at it for a year and it just…

— Kelly Reichardt

A lot of people say, 'Well, I'm just not political.' And I think: Do you have a bank account? You're political. Not…

— Kelly Reichardt

Maybe I'm suspicious of absolutes. I mean, yes, there is something satisfying about watching an old film when the music rises up…

— Kelly Reichardt

I mean I came up with a community of filmmakers, with Larry Fessenden and Ira Sachs and Pete Sillen, and we all…

— Kelly Reichardt

I was working outside the system 'cause I couldn't get into the system. But in fact I like going off and I…

— Kelly Reichardt

To some degree I'm tied to the budgets I can raise. And that starts to very much affect you... originally I always…

— Kelly Reichardt

There were just two of us women filmmakers at Sundance in '94, and there was no sense of camaraderie or welcoming -…

— Kelly Reichardt

All those women I work with are just so awesome. Then there's just people too, like James LeGross is one of the…

— Kelly Reichardt

My childhood was pretty chaotic. When my parents got divorced, my dad moved in with five other crime scene detectives. I remember…

— Kelly Reichardt

Stephen Shore, Robert Adams and Joe Deal's photography are big influences and part of that school of 'man-altered landscapes.' For me a…

— Kelly Reichardt

I spent a good three months obsessing over the cricket sounds in 'First Cow,' totally fearful that their chirping rhythm was going…

— Kelly Reichardt

First Cow' was pretty down and dirty, but I shot five-day weeks. I'd never done that before, just go to the location…

— Kelly Reichardt

I made 'Old Joy' with this weird idea that maybe this could get me over to Bard, which I'd heard about because…

— Kelly Reichardt