Kelly Reichardt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The lies are in the dialogue, theÂ truthÂ is in the visuals.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Lying #Truth Is #Dialogue
Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Wake Up #Waking #Pleasure
The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Beautiful #Moments #Beautiful Moments
Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Strange #Moments #Happens
I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Thinking #Energy #Waste
I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Lonely #Filmmaking
I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Years #Different #Midlife
I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#People
I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Done #Film #Easy
I'm still the person on my friend's couch, and I'd like to own the couch.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Couches #Persons #Stills
I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Feels #Values
In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Age #World #Feels
I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Moving #Suvs #Littles
As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Children #Party #Ideas
I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And there's so much talent to be cast. There really is. We saw some really good readings. There's more talent to be had there.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Reading #Native American #Talent
I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#New York #Moving #Sadness
It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Trying #Beef #Dukes
I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.
-- Kelly Reichardt

#Miserable #Angry #I Can

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