I feel like each film we make - especially with 'Meek's Cutoff' - could be the last film I make. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
I teach for a living, and I make movies when I can. I've never made money from my films. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
When you're young, you're looking for things that make you feel like you could make a film. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
I never had the idea that filmmaking was going to sustain me. I just always think: I get to go make a… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Hollywood's never been that appealing a world to me. It's just not my thing. I, just as a dummy, thought that was… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Well, by now, I hope people would know the films of Peggy Ahwesh. I actually stole the title of 'Certain Women' from… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's good that Agnes Varda is so central now to any conversation about independent cinema - but at the same time -… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My parents were in law enforcement, and I didn't really have any movie influences until I got out of Florida and went… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Before I made my first film, 'River of Grass,' I worked on a lot of small 8mm films in art school in… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Jean-Pierre Melville is a favorite filmmaker of mine, I love the Hollywood New Wave, but that genre is made of films about… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Every time I watch a history of cinema - or a documentary on film - it will show eleven men talking about… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I got my heart broken to find out that the independent film community was so unwelcoming. It was not open to women… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Well, the reason that I teach at Bard is because it's a largely avant-garde program. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
To some degree I'm tied to the budgets I can raise. And that starts to very much affect you... originally I always shot outside… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
In my world, when I'm making work, when I go to my core group of people that I've been going to for 20 years… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Hollywood's never been that appealing a world to me. It's just not my thing. I, just as a dummy, thought that was the only… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
People make art for reasons other than money. People make art because they're compelled to, it's how they deal with the world or how… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
It's funny, every time I start work on a new script, it feels like I'm going outside my comfort zone. But by the time… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
When I started teaching originally, I was teaching at NYU, which was not a good fit at all. It was one girl for every… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
I got into photography in sixth grade. My father let me use his camera and then got me my first Pentax K1000. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Jean-Pierre Melville is a favorite filmmaker of mine, I love the Hollywood New Wave, but that genre is made of films about men made… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Friendship has made my life so rich and making things with people who are your friends... these are now decades-long relationships that are deep… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
