Kelly Reichardt

Don't we all really just plan our lives around health insurance?

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

— Kelly Reichardt

I didn't really learn how to figure out this filmmaking life from any book.

— Kelly Reichardt

I never had the idea that filmmaking was going to sustain me. I just always think: I get to go make a…

— Kelly Reichardt

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

— Kelly Reichardt

The stories that I tell - a guy stealing milk - aren't exactly stories that make mobs of people rush to theaters.

— Kelly Reichardt

I completely don't enjoy sci-fi. I have to say that's a genre I'm deeply, deeply not into. I can't - I'm so…

— 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

Most people that are making art are not famous! Most people that are making art do have day jobs. And it takes…

— Kelly Reichardt

Google is not research. Research is a lived thing.

— 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

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

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

— 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

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 can laugh at anything.

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

— Kelly Reichardt

Nobody comes into my editing room, ever. Art by committee is a really bad idea.

— 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

Lotta Sea Lice' is a record that sets a nice mood and tone. It's good at all junctures of the day -…

— Kelly Reichardt

I tried so hard to be a more avant-garde, less narrative filmmaker, but it just didn't come naturally to me.

— 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

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