When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. 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. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
Rebecca MillerThe 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 MillerAt 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 MillerYou work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.
Rebecca MillerAs 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