Julie Delpy famous quotes

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.
-- Julie Delpy

#Relationship #Single #Being Alone

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.
-- Julie Delpy

#Paris #Creative #Sitting

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
-- Julie Delpy

#Eight #Years #Directors

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting a job and all that stuff, because I don't really need to get a job because I have a job as a writer/director. That's how I make my living mostly now. So I don't need to make a living as an actress.
-- Julie Delpy

#Mean

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
-- Julie Delpy

#New York #Roots #Paris

The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.
-- Julie Delpy

#People #Film

I don't like to be overly directing people either. I tell them what I want and I tell them when it's wrong. I tell them no, that's not what I want. I want it more like this or more like that. I'm pretty direct with everyone, and I treat everyone the same which might be good.
-- Julie Delpy

#People #Be Good #Direct

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion. It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.
-- Julie Delpy

#Confusion #Language #Mayhem

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
-- Julie Delpy

#Writing #Acting #Done

I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don't write, and make more money.
-- Julie Delpy

#Writing #Joy #Helping

I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.
-- Julie Delpy

#Blessed #Writing #Acting

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.
-- Julie Delpy

#Dream #Reality #Week

In real life, when you speak with each other you overlap each other, so you can't fake that. Like especially when you have no cut. In a regular film when you want people to overlap you cut it that way. It's mixing and editing.
-- Julie Delpy

#Real #Cutting #People

I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.
-- Julie Delpy

#Writing #Fighting #Thinking

Our society is so much about fidelity being this thing that's sacred, and people are miserable. They're suicidal. It brings more depression than anything else on earth, probably. Sorry to say that, guys.
-- Julie Delpy

#Sorry #Suicidal #People

I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.
-- Julie Delpy

#Thinking #People #Ego

People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.
-- Julie Delpy

#People #Faults

I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn.
-- Julie Delpy

#Ideas #People #Stubborn

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.
-- Julie Delpy

#Fun #Real #Character

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.
-- Julie Delpy

#Reality #And Love #Contradictory

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
-- Julie Delpy

#Littles #Way

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.
-- Julie Delpy

#Beautiful #Details #Made

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.
-- Julie Delpy

#Acting #Want #Instinct

In your thirties, you're much more comfortable with sex. First of all, sex is something you've done more. You know you can have sex just to have sex; you can have sex with friends; you can have sex with people you love; you can have sex with people you don't like, but the sex is good. And you can joke about sex much more.
-- Julie Delpy

#Sex #Love You #People

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.
-- Julie Delpy

#School #Stories #Film

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.
-- Julie Delpy

#Woody

We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive.  It’s very rare to be able to do that.  It’s completely pure.
-- Julie Delpy

#Creative #Want #Able

I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
-- Julie Delpy

#Strong #Fun #Mean

Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.
-- Julie Delpy

#Baby #Missing #Planes

I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.
-- Julie Delpy

#Real #Awful #Nightmare

Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women. (...) I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.
-- Julie Delpy

#Teaching #Love Is #Men

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.
-- Julie Delpy

#Depression #Psycho #Mental Illness

So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew it was a special moment, but something was always wrong. I wished I'd been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling - exactly what was so important to me - they didn't understand.
-- Julie Delpy

#Beautiful #Night #People

I hate that whole Tarantino thing about beating up women and killing them and chopping up. Just because you have the mind of a 12 year old.
-- Julie Delpy

#Hate #Years #Mind

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.
-- Julie Delpy

#Kids #Artist #Born

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.
-- Julie Delpy

#Humility #People #Littles

I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.
-- Julie Delpy

#Acting #Looks #Botox

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
-- Julie Delpy

#Drama #Warrior #People

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
-- Julie Delpy

#Hands #People #Trying

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.
-- Julie Delpy

#Unbearable #Actresses

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.
-- Julie Delpy

#Hate #Rain #Holiday