Rebecca Miller, writer & filmmaker

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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Thinking about writing again.

Having been through it a good few times now I can recognize this feeling of confusion I have about what to write next. I have too many impulses, and I am falling in love with one idea after another with a very particular fickleness and lack of concentration that always happens to me when I [...]

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