160 Quotes by Julie Delpy

I may move from everywhere and spend two or three years in total isolation. I like being alone a lot. I enjoy that more than anything.

My dad has always been such a great dad, and he's brought so much culture to my life. He dragged me to see every single movie at the cinématheque as a kid. I saw everything from Star Wars to Bergman.

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.

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting a job and all that stuff, because I don't really need to get a job because I have a job as a writer/director. That's how I make my living mostly now. So I don't need to make a living as an actress.

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.

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 talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally.

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

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.