Self Self Quotes by Rebecca Miller

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

— Rebecca Miller

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw…

— Rebecca Miller

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

— Rebecca Miller

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

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

— Rebecca Miller

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

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

— Rebecca Miller

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

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

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

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

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

— Rebecca Miller

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

— Rebecca Miller

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable…

— Rebecca Miller

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

— Rebecca Miller