Julie Delpy Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Creative, Want, Able

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Littles, Film, Accuracy

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

• Some people are still very romantic! I mean, those funny vampire films are super romantic, and I don't think that's bad. It means there are a lot of people who still believe in love in a weird way. Okay, it's a cheesy way, and I guess if you think about it, you're like, "Wait, you can love them as long as they're dead?" Maybe that's the point. Maybe it's more twisted than I thought. You can love but you can't age.

  Julie Delpy

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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

  Julie Delpy

  School, Stories, Film

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Years, Oscars, Film

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

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Drama, Warrior, People

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Moving, Europe, Together

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

• I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

  Julie Delpy

  Humility, People, Littles

• I have a few other films in my life where I'm not attached and for a long time it was too complicated. Now it's starting to change because other actresses actually want to work with me, which is great.

  Julie Delpy

  Long, Want, Actresses

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

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Real, Cutting, Editing

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

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Eight, Editing, Self

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

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Editing, Editors, People

  "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.

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Believe, Comedy, Film

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

• I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.

  Julie Delpy

  Fashion, Film, Terrible

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

• I've directed five films and I've proven that people have made money with my films - many people have made money with my films.

  Julie Delpy

  People, Film, Made

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

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Mean, Men, Three

  "Round table: Julie Delpy, Ava DuVernay and Leslye Headland on directing". Interview with Nicole Sperling, articles.latimes.com. August 10, 2012.

• I've proven that I'm not a complete failure. Every film has done well. It's like, "So, okay, when do I get my deal at Warner Bros?

  Julie Delpy

  Done, Film, Bros

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

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