Julie Delpy Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Julie Delpy on Wise Famous Quotes.
I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.
Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.
I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.
I've proven that I'm not a complete failure. Every film has done well. It's like, 'So, okay, when do I get my deal at Warner Bros?'
Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.
I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.
When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
I've directed five films and I've proven that people have made money with my films - many people have made money with my films.
It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.
I put my films together in Europe and it kick-starts the financing when I'm attached as an actress. It makes it easier to move forward.
The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.
The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.
The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.
People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.
It's easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy.
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.
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.
It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.
My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.
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.
For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.
I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.
I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.