Latest Miranda July Quotes from Interviews

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• I think titles are tricky because they're like a really short ad for the book. And like an ad, they should open the door in a way that might be more accessible than the book itself. So I always like titles to be familiar. I'm not trying to break ground with the title itself. The title should feel like something already celebrated.

  Miranda July

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.

  Miranda July

  People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while; you just hold on to that early impression.

  Miranda July

  People, Important, First Impression

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a million drafts and things changing radically and characters appearing and disappearing and solving mysteries: Why is this thing here? Should I just take that away? And then realizing, no, that is there, in fact, because that is the key to this. I love that sort of detective work, keeping the faith alive until all the questions have been sleuthed out.

  Miranda July

  Writing, Character, Things Change

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People who would not be using the word gender or thinking about gayness or trans-ness may actually, without even thinking about it, be not their own gender in their inner world. I think that's actually so normal, because female sexuality is sold to all of us. It doesn't just reach the eyes of men. You might not care about the idea of boobs or jugs or whatever, but it could impact your inner sexual life.

  Miranda July

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many of the short stories in one sitting or over maybe three days, and they didn't change that much. There weren't many, many drafts. That made me feel semi-brilliant and part of a magical process. Writing the novel wasn't like that. I would come home every day from my office and say, "Well, I still really like the story, I just wish it was better written." At that point, I didn't realize I was writing a first draft. And the first draft was the hardest part.

  Miranda July

  Home, Writing, Office

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. But my way into making movies has been through performing. My very first short film, I played a child and her own mother. So in some ways, to me, my great achievement so far is just that I've gotten all these other people to play the other parts. That's what makes it a real movie.

  Miranda July

  Mother, Children, Real

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.

  Miranda July

  Ideas, Knowing, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

• If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.

  Miranda July

  Fall, Character, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

• People ask, 'Why would you cast yourself in your movie?' And, for me, it's more like an achievement that I am now not playing all the parts, you know? Like I was for so long, in all my performances and a lot of my short movies. So, that's where I'm coming from, not out of a kind of actress-y sense of myself. I mean, I don't really see myself as an actress, but more from performance: this is how you make something. You do it yourself. You're in it and you write it. I think I keep doing it that way, 'cause it's my way. It's what makes me feel like I know how to do it.

  Miranda July

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

• As a woman filmmaker it's pretty important that you have some basis of confidence that you're coming from, because, as I got closer to LA, there's less and less women. There's less and less mirrors for who you are.

  Miranda July

  Mirrors, Important, Filmmaker

  Source: thequietus.com

• Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

  Miranda July

  Hardest, Hard

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• To do someone else's script? I don't think I'd have a reason.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, Scripts, Reason

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

  Miranda July

  Fire, Feelings, Made

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

  Miranda July

  Way, Performing, My Way

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• I can't imagine being invested in someone else's script.

  Miranda July

  Scripts, Imagine, I Can

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

  Miranda July

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really good, useful thing to get to have in a story. And in a movie, it's amazing, because you actually get to show things.

  Miranda July

  Sex, Different, Stories

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. July 7, 2008.

• I don't tally the world, asking, "Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you?" That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.

  Miranda July

  Struggle, Asking, World

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.

  Miranda July

  Guarantees, Conscious, I Can

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.

  Miranda July

  People, Annoying, Sincere

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

  Miranda July

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, Interesting, Looks

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• There's always the sense that you should strike while the iron's hot and while there are all these opportunities, but that's not the way I get ideas. It has to be more organic, building up through living and through experiencing things.

  Miranda July

  Opportunity, Building Up, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

• I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your own thoughts, and so with nothing resolved you just go ahead and have unprotected sex. The moment I became pregnant, everything became out of gait. None of those fears seem relevant in the same way, and that's so like life, that once you do the daring move you're in a totally different landscape. Now it's a new story.

  Miranda July

  Sex, Moving, Wrestling

  "The Rumpus Interview With Miranda July". Interview with Zack Ruskin, therumpus.net. April 18, 2012.