90 Quotes by Marielle Heller

For the same reason I want to make movies about women, I also want to make movies that help men be better men and that can be an antidote to toxic masculinity.

I guess I always view movies as, in their best form, connecting us more to each other and to humanity.

I don't really believe that all theater needs to be filmed - for some things, the special part of live theater is that it exists and then it's gone.

The beauty of film is that you can get closer than you can in theater, you know? I come from theater, and I remember feeling like I was almost cheating when I would put the camera so close to somebody's face when I was filming them.

My normal way of filming something is, like, one camera, very well planned out, knowing exactly how we're going to get each shot.

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted to put out into the world - and I have fallen in love with directing.

I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.

I did not grow up in the 70s but in the 80s in the Bay Area, the child of hippies in Berkeley, so I felt connected to the place and the legendary things that had come before me historically that I'd missed.

I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.