There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain. Rebecca Miller More Quotes by Rebecca Miller More Quotes From 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 thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly. Rebecca Miller artistusethinking Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it. Rebecca Miller frustrationcolorwriting 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 things. It's a zone, just like an athlete, when they can't remember what they did, but somehow got it done. Rebecca Miller over-youdoneathlete At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction. Rebecca Miller directorsmovingthinking The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation. Rebecca Miller scriptsmusicalplay Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through. Rebecca Miller differentstoriescharacter Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines. Rebecca Miller disciplinefilmimportant I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. Rebecca Miller synthesismindwriting I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live in, and how you think. I found it quite natural to think as a male because I actually think that as a female, one often thinks in the mind of a male in terms of eroticism. You think about what the other person feels. So it's not that hard to imagine being that person. Rebecca Miller joysexthinking 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. Rebecca Miller oceanignorancewriting As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely. Rebecca Miller fashionappreciationbook As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book. Rebecca Miller startingbookworld Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is. Rebecca Miller rootswritingbook I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us? Rebecca Miller creationelementslaughing Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract squiggles on a page which somebody is then able to connect with. I'm still amazed by it and think I always will be. Rebecca Miller miraclewritingthinking I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things. Rebecca Miller spaceideasthinking Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century. Rebecca Miller paintingwayworld Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again. Rebecca Miller storieswantway I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter. Rebecca Miller painteruniversitypercent 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. Rebecca Miller jewish-faithunderstandinghalf
