Rebecca Miller Quotes

In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside yourself and I do that anyway, so I might as well be doing something that I already do, as in a second nature to me, on film.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Acting is always therapeutic.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.

I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.