Reichardt Quotes & Sayings

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad. — Vladimir Putin

The right path is characterised by rough road. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry. — Kelly Reichardt

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment. — Kelly Reichardt

I'm still the person on my friend's couch, and I'd like to own the couch. — Kelly Reichardt

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

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

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value. — Kelly Reichardt

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

I remember one director in Argentina said to me, 'You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.' And I didn't care. I don't have a complex. — Elena Roger

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

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

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

I'm passionate about travel. — Jordana Spiro

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

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

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience. — Kelly Reichardt

It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am. — Shakira

There is a word which sums up this 'separate but equal' mentality - Apartheid. And we all know how separate and how equal that was. — Christina Engela

I feel empty and purposeless, like the first day of summer after school ends, but I am free. — Lindsay Smith

Oh pleasure, you're indeed a pleasant thing, / Although one must be damned for you no doubt. / I make a resolution every spring / Of reformation, ere the year run out. — George Gordon Byron

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

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one. — Kelly Reichardt

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures. — Kelly Reichardt

Reichardt kept people relentlessly focused on the simple hedgehog idea, — James C. Collins

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

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals. — Kelly Reichardt