160 Quotes by Julie Delpy

I can’t really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

I went to film school to make films just because you’re in control of the story.

I avoid confrontation. When I’m on set I never snap at anyone. I don’t have a temper.

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.

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.

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.

And I realized that directing actors is really important because that’s what ends up on screen.

I don’t know any woman in France who doesn’t talk to firemen and smile at them, because they’re always so sweet, and they’re wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!

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.