Julia Leigh Quotes

• I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

  Julia Leigh

  School, Giving, Support

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• Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

  Julia Leigh

  Movie, Together, Directors

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• I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

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  Thinking, Perceive, Single Person

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• I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

  Julia Leigh

  Ideas, Cinema, World

  "Julia Leigh – Writer/Director of Sleeping Beauty". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

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  Athlete, Elite Athletes, Concentration

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• One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

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  Atmosphere, Important, Ephemeral

  "Interview: Sleeping Beauty Director Julia Leigh" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 29, 2011.

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• It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

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  Movie, Thinking, Actors

  "While You Were Sleeping: Julia Leigh's Dream World". Interview with Craig Hubert, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

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  Friday, Night, Next Day

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• I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

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  People, Skins, Trying

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• I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

  Julia Leigh

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

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  Thinking, Expression, Novelists

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• I don't think good films have messages.

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  Thinking, Messages, Film

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• I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

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  Believe, Realizing, Adaptable

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• I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

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  Remember, Forget, Forget It

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• The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

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  Long, Great Things, Long Time

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• To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

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  Inspiration, Exercise, Thinking

  "Julia Leigh – Writer/Director of Sleeping Beauty". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.

  Julia Leigh

  Writing, Space, Roles

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