Director Rebecca Miller on the Creative Process

Writer-Director-Actress Rebecca Milller discusses writing, directing and acting, and touches on her worst fears. (You had me at, “a deep anarchic void inside of us.” Happy Monday!) Miller adapted Proof for the screen, and most recently directed The Ballad of Jack and Rose (sensitive, literate, under-appreciated).

Opeing in Europe before it appears here, Miller’s next film is The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, adapted from her ow novel. Cast? oh yeah, there’s a cast alright.

Robin Wright Penn … Pippa Lee
Keanu Reeves … Chris Nadeau
Julianne Moore … Kat
Alan Arkin … Herb Lee
Winona Ryder … Sandra Dulles
Maria Bello … Suky Sarkissian
Monica Bellucci … Gigi Lee
Zoe Kazan … Grace Lee
Blake Lively … young Pippa Lee

Poster and promo trailer (in Italian) after the cut.