Rebecca Miller, writer & filmmaker

Bio

Rebecca Miller worked as a painter before becoming a writer and director. She is the author of the short story collection “Personal Velocity” (2001) and the novel “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.” For the film version of “Personal Velocity”, she won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. She has also written and directed the award-winning films “Angela” and “The Ballad of Jack and Rose”.

“The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee” is her first novel and is being published in 30 countries. The film version will be released in Fall 2009, with a cast that includes Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore, Alan Arkin, and Winona Ryder.

Rebecca Miller lives in Ireland and New York with her family.

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More about Rebecca Miller’s work in film: imdb.com

on writing. tidal waves. Eudora Welty

My son tells me a mega-Tsunami is expected to hit Manhattan and wipe it out entirely. Understandably, he finds this disconcerting. So do I. All chaos is disconcerting. The Egyptians, this same son has informed me, divided the world into order and chaos, instead of good and evil. Goodness is order, what we can predict. [...]

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about seeing from the outside and whether it has value

Recently I was told I have a choice, I can continue to make films the way I have, idiosyncratic films that are hard to describe in a sentence, or I can try to make films that have a chance of being more accessible to more people, like maybe a genre film that I put my [...]

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On rehearsal and shooting in Ireland.

I am sick today. It snowed. It doesn’t snow often in Ireland so the roads are pretty much just left as they are out here where I live, and we all slide around as best we can. Someone asked in a comment about whether or not I rehearse. The only time I really rehearsed scenes [...]

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In defense of cliche. A man from Mississippi. Christmas.

There is a man from Mississippi who wants to see Pippa. Great. I wonder if there is an art house nearby where he lives? Sir? Maybe I can get a print there. It’s heartening to hear from a family man who cares about my films–not that my audiences are always female. That’s not my experience [...]

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Pippa is about to come out in the States on November 27th. Feeling hopeful.

First of all I want to thank those of you who are writing to me about Pippa. It’s so heartening to see that people –at least a few people–are “getting” the film. I just came back to Ireland from 8 days in the States promoting Pippa, first in LA then NYC. I think maybe in [...]

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