Julie Delpy Quotes

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.

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.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

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.

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.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

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

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

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

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.

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.

We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It’s very rare to be able to do that. It’s completely pure.

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.

Some films do portray women in their 40s well, and some other films don't. Some films are written by women, so maybe there's a little more accuracy there.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.

The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

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.

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

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

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.

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.

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.

People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

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.

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

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

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.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand 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 think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly.

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.

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

I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

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.

I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

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

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.

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.

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

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.