Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.
Rebecca MillerThere is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.
Rebecca MillerEvery milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
Rebecca MillerI 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