Reichardt Quotes

#1. Reichardt kept people relentlessly focused on the simple hedgehog idea,

James C. Collins

#2. I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

Kelly Reichardt

#3. But we didn't know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we'd grown up with.

Kent Haruf

#4. I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

Kelly Reichardt

#5. Why do you do that?

Do what?

Blow off compliments.

I don't.

You kind of do.

Sorry.

Don't apologize. Just learn to say thanks.

Marisa Reichardt

#6. Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

Kelly Reichardt

#7. It turned out I wasn't dying on the outside. I was only dying on the inside, where nobody could see.

Marisa Reichardt

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I'm still the person on my friend's couch, and I'd like to own the couch.

Kelly Reichardt

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.

Michael Bloomberg

#14. The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Kelly Reichardt

#15. I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

Kelly Reichardt

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

Kelly Reichardt

#17. 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

#18. Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup.

Thomas Muller

#19. I play video games a lot ... I love to read ... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

Lea Salonga

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

Kelly Reichardt

#23. Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Dejan Stojanovic

#24. Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

Kelly Reichardt