Julie Delpy Quotes
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I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.
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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.
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Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't always mention this part of directing, but it's also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.
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I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.
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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?
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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.
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Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.
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Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.
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I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.
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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.
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Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.
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To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.
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I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.
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I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.
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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.
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Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
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I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.
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Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It's easy to just steal an idea because it's very safe.
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I have a few other films in my life where I'm not attached and for a long time it was too complicated. Now it's starting to change because other actresses actually want to work with me, which is great.
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