I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share
I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us? — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth! — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
