Rebecca Miller Quotes

"Nobody who makes anything can tell someone else exactly how they do it, because they don`t really know themselves."

"My father was my father. His well-known-ness was something separate from that. It had no reality for me. That Arthur Miller was like a shadow person. So the only time I think about it now is when I am doing interviews and people ask me about it. Otherwise, I feel totally disconnected from that line of thought."

"I hope that as I build a body of work, that tendency to connect me with my father in particular will diminish. Already, it varies from country to country. In Britain, my father was very important. Not that he wasn`t in the States, but somehow, it seems to matter more here."

Thank God my movies were flops. If I had become a movie star that would have been a personal disaster. Friends wondered what the hell I was doing at that time because acting seemed so out of character. But I knew I wasn`t suited to it. I don`t like my face being the focus.

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 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.

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

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

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

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

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