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.…

— Rebecca Miller

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Rebecca Miller

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

— 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…

— Rebecca Miller

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

— Rebecca Miller

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

— Rebecca Miller

I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is…

— Rebecca Miller

I think it's very important to keep being frightened - if you're not frightening yourself, you should take a break. You need…

— Rebecca Miller

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I…

— Rebecca Miller

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

— Rebecca Miller

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks…

— Rebecca Miller

I'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details…

— Rebecca Miller

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

— Rebecca Miller

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

— Rebecca Miller

I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century…

— Rebecca Miller