Rebecca Miller On She Came To Me, Overcoming Writer’s Block And New Original Bruce Springsteen Song

After The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Ballad of Jack and Rose or yet again Maggie’s Plan, director and writer Rebecca Miller’s latest movie, She Came To Me, once again dives into a unique, inventive, touching and humorous story about creativity, love, dreams and self-fulfillment. Starring Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei, She Came To Me tells the story of Steven, an opera composer who struggles with writer’s block, and finally gets his inspiration back after having an affair.

In her films, Rebecca Miller likes mixing tones, and She Came to Me does that brilliantly as well: It insn’t just a rom com, and it isn’t just a drama: It gets very serious when it has to be, and you’ll find yourself laughing out loud two seconds after that. While speaking with Rebecca Miller, the director shared with me where the inspiration behind her new movie came from, and what attracts her to writing such nuanced, mixed-tone stories, with characters we most likely have never seen before: ‘’Comedy is really hard. And I do also love drama, and even melodrama, but there’s something about comedy that is difficult. Sometimes, there are more poignant things in life if you look at them in a comic lens, and you can go quite deep. And I loved working with these actors who are so adapted to this tone, which is a very special tone, it’s not flat out comedy, there’s also pathos as well (…) I think I am interested in rhythm, and actually this whole movie is a musical piece, in a way.”