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

- 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…

- Kelly Reichardt

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

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

- 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

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

- 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

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 cas…

- Kelly Reichardt

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

- Kelly Reichardt