Rebecca Miller Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

Blackbird has been around since 1999 and I was having shows in it when it was a derelict Victorian.

Even children playing, as frightened as they can get, for the most part, still have a little part of them that doesn't believe it's real, or that flickers in and out.

Eventually people either notice what you're doing or they don't.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Everybody's worst fear that the person they love the most is completely unavailable to them and when they speak, they speak in tongues and you don't know what they're saying and there's no way they'll ever really understand you.

For me the actor is the centre of the universe that is the set, and the shots are composed to witness performances.

I always drew when I was very young, it was the thing that came easiest to me.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I don't really rely upon or trust that American media coverage is accurate.

I don't so much think in terms of greatness or hugeness. I think in terms of just doing my own thing, whatever that is and whatever size it ends up being.

I don't think I've shied away from recognition; the truth is, I've just kept my nose to the grindstone and tried to do my own work.

I don't want to forget the people that I love and are my life.

I grew up in the country. And writing there is easier... it could be good.

I have formal shows 2-4 times a year, random music shows, and boutique events. I work in there when there are no shows.

I like to go to my hometown and walk in the hills.

I like to hang out with my friends, ride my bike, dance, act stupid, sleep in and maybe read.

I love New York. It's my home town but I don't know if I want to raise my children there.

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

I prefer the news from other countries.

I probably will be thinking and talking and writing about my mother for the rest of my life.

I think because I was forced to write about myself and my ideas it drove me a bit mad.

I think it made me more independent in some way, in terms of wanting my own voice to be particular to me and not needing to prove anything to anyone except for myself.

I think that film tends to penetrate the actor and distill the inherent quality in them that no matter what character they're playing, the film registers that quality that's sort of their essence, their soul.

I think you have to be open to the next stage in life, not hang on to things too much.

I think you write a film many times.

I try to only work 8 hours a day.

I wanted to be free from the idea of having to write for film because I found it so frustrating.

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

I'd spent a good five or six years doing film writing before I started to write ficiton.

I'm trying to create an atmosphere where actors can behave as the characters.

I'm trying to get true moments where you are sometimes almost embarrassed to be in a room with two characters.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

I've always been very focused. Focused in obscurity but focused nevertheless.

I've always thought if you're honest about yourself you will always find somebody who will recognise themselves in you, because there are only so many different ways of being a human being.

If I have time in the day then I like to ride my bike to the mission and run into people I know and chat.

In the past I worked as a gardener and also at a landscape architecture firm.

It's a compulsion to make things. I'm always making something in my head.

My Friends are truly wonderful and smart men, women, and children.

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

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

The building is said to be haunted by an old woman that sits in the window looking out to the bay.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

The space that I use as Blackbird is actually my studio.

Though I have to admit, my parents lived in a very simple way.

Up until the age of seven or eight, the world of the imagination and the world of fantasy is much more real to those children.

Very often children get the worst news or feel the most pain and you can't really see it on their faces; there's something - it's not a toughness, but its a very special way of displaying emotion.

Where you step over completely into seeing, feeling and hearing the voices and the images of your imagination with no sensor, then that's when it becomes dangerous.