Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Augusta Milleris an American independent filmmaker, screenwriter, film director, and novelist, known for her films Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and Maggie's Plan, all of which she wrote and directed. Miller is the daughter of Magnum photographer Inge Morath and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth15 September 1962
CityRoxbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Rebecca Miller quotes about
I'm thankful that everyone got out safely. You always wonder how it's going to be if it ever happens.
I am a believer that if you are going to be a member of an organization, then you should work to give back to it.
We were in bed and we heard someone's fire alarm go off, started smelling smoke and looked out the window, everyone was outside, so we just rushed out and saw everything was on fire.
We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.
I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].
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.
I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.
I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.
I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?
I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.