Julia Leigh famous quotes

03-28-2025

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.
-- Julia Leigh

#Thinking #Perceive #Single Person
The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.
-- Julia Leigh

#Writing #Space #Roles
I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.
-- Julia Leigh

#School #Giving #Support
I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.
-- Julia Leigh

#Ideas #Cinema #World
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
-- Julia Leigh

#Athlete #Elite Athletes #Concentration
One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.
-- Julia Leigh

#Atmosphere #Important #Ephemeral
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
-- Julia Leigh

#Thinking #Too Much #Film
I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.
-- Julia Leigh

#Friday #Night #Next
I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.
-- Julia Leigh

#People #Skins #Trying
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
-- Julia Leigh

#Writing #Thinking #Stories
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.
-- Julia Leigh

#Thinking #Expression #Novelists
I don't think good films have messages.
-- Julia Leigh

#Thinking #Messages #Film
I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
-- Julia Leigh

#Believe #Realizing
I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.
-- Julia Leigh

#Remember #Forget #Forget It
Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
-- Julia Leigh

#Together #Directors #Filmmaking
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
-- Julia Leigh

#Long #Great Things
To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.
-- Julia Leigh

#Inspiration #Exercise #Thinking

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