I’ve never had help from anyone, ever. I’ve never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I’m a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.

— Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy Quotes

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

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

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.

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

I didn’t really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

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.

— Julie Delpy

Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I’ve done it for so many years, it’s still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely vulnerable when you’re on camera. You’re filmed and you’re being observed. It’s a bit of a violation each time.

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

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.

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

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.

— Julie Delpy
About Stories

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.

— Julie Delpy

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.

— Julie Delpy
About Stories

I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

— Julie Delpy

I guess when you’re young, you believe that you’ll meet many people with whom you’ll connect, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.

— Julie Delpy

You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost.

— Julie Delpy

Well, it must have been one hell of a night we’re about to have.

— Julie Delpy
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