160 Quotes by Julie Delpy

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.

Usually I’m able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

I want to be positive and say: everything I’ve written will get made eventually.

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.

It’s terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it’s like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it’s almost like men can have three films in a row that don’t do that well and keep on going.

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

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that’s the only thing in common throughout the world.

To make what you have in your head, I think that’s what directing is.