Julie Delpy Quotes

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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.

Julie Delpy

Relationship, Romantic, Single

"Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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

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Writing, Independent, Love Is

"indieWIRE INTERVIEW | “2 Days in Paris” Director Julie Delpy". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2007.

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

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Beautiful, Sunset, Details

"Before Sunset". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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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.

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Years, Answers, Firsts

"TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Julie Delpy – "Lolo". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 16, 2015.

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

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Paris, Creative, Sitting

"Time Out with Before Midnight's Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2013.

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People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.

Julie Delpy

People, Faults

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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.

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New York, Paris, Roots

"French connected". Interview with Marianne Gray, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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

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Depression, Psycho, Mental Illness

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

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Reality, Thinking, Disorder

"Julie Delpy's Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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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.

Julie Delpy

Thinking, People, Love At First Sight

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

Julie Delpy

Eight, Years, Directors

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

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Mistake, Editing, Saws

"Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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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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Strong, Fun, Mean

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I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.

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Thinking, People, Ego

"Chris Rock and Julie Delpy on Their Sundance Romance, On-screen Chemistry, and Racism Versus Stupidity". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 26, 2012.

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

Julie Delpy

Sunrise, Littles, Way

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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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Beautiful, Night, People

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The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.

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Moving, Long, Cameras

"Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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I'm comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I'm like a chameleon. If a country doesn't have Internet, then I get used to not having the Internet. I could basically live anywhere. I'm a nomad at heart. Nothing is more boring than monotony.

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Country, Heart, Three

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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World, Common

Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2007.

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People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?

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People, Wish, Good Things

"Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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I don't like to be overly directing people either. I tell them what I want and I tell them when it's wrong. I tell them no, that's not what I want. I want it more like this or more like that. I'm pretty direct with everyone, and I treat everyone the same which might be good.

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People, Want, Might

"Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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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.

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Blessed, Writing, Acting

"The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 22, 2014.

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You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

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Thinking, Self, Truth Is

"Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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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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Eight, Editing, Self

"Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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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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Believe, Comedy, Film

"Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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Latest quotes from interviews

"Being happy is not all about love! Love is not everything. Work, friends, and achieving things... your finite thing in life can't be getting married and having children. Like, creating a life for myself that's my own, and my own road? That was always the most important thing for me. Right now, I have a kid and stuff, and it's fantastic to be a mother, but it's not the final thing. You want to stay an individual. You need to stay an individual for your kid, as an example of what a human being should be! You want to stay true to yourself and not become a half a person. That is so, so important."

- Julie Delpy,

www.elle.com, added Jan 11, 2018

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