Quotes from Rebecca Miller

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

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

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but by a desire to experience life completely and to make life a little easier for the people around her

Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

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

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

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.

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

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

You 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.

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.

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

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.