Julie Delpy
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.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Romantic
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.
The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.
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.
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.
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.
If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.
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.
When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.
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.
I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.Collection: Writing
You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Years
My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.Collection: Paris
People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.Collection: People
Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.Collection: Depression
I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.Collection: Reality
Whether it's friendship or love. The essence of is two people trying to share something. When I think of how I met my best friends, it was always like love at first sight.Collection: Thinking
I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.Collection: Mistake
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?Collection: Strong
I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.Collection: Thinking
Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?Collection: Sunrise
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.Collection: Beautiful
I'm comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I'm like a chameleon. If a country doesn't have Internet, then I get used to not having the Internet. I could basically live anywhere. I'm a nomad at heart. Nothing is more boring than monotony.Collection: Country
Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.Collection: World
People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?Collection: People
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Blessed
The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.Collection: Moving
You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.Collection: Thinking
I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film.Collection: Eight
What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could get financing, you know? I believe my other films could be better, but right now they're not being made. But they will eventually.Collection: Believe
To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.Collection: Thinking
The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Writing
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.Collection: People
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Sorry
I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.Collection: Neurotic
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.Collection: Years
A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.Collection: Advice
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.Collection: Moving
I've had this opportunity to get some of my financing out of Europe, which has helped tremendously, so I'm not completely dependent on the studio system or on U.S. financing.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Writing
I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.Collection: Being Positive
I'm 43, and I really don't take care of my looks. It's kind of a bad thing for an actress, but at the same time, I can't go there. I like clothes because clothes are fun. I'm still a girl, I mean, a woman, and I still love shoes. But the aging and the face...and how do you stay young and skinny and all that? I feel like if I focus on those problems too much, I'm going to lose myself in them, and it's not very interesting.Collection: Girl
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?Collection: Done