Top 80 Julie Delpy Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Julie Delpy

2. “Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”

— Julie Delpy

3. “Maybe I’m a bit of a psycho-but I’d rather be psycho than boring.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

5. “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

6. “I think it’s nice when everyone’s happy. I’m that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they’re never happy, that’s the way they are.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

8. “Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.”

— Julie Delpy

9. “I don’t want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it’s cold and raining, and there’s nothing fancy about it.”

— Julie Delpy

10. “You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

13. “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

14. “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

15. “Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.”

— Julie Delpy

16. “I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

18. “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

19. “It’s easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy.”

— Julie Delpy

20. “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

21. “I’m a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it’s OK. It’s not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I’m pretty stubborn.”

— Julie Delpy

22. “My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.”

— Julie Delpy

23. “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.”

— Julie Delpy

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

29. “I wasn’t born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn’t have been an artist because I’m much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can’t really escape it.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

31. “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.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

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36. “I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don’t write, and make more money.”

— Julie Delpy

37. “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.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

39. “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

40. “For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

42. “A waltz for a night.”

— Julie Delpy

43. “I think it’s obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don’t dare to talk about openly.”

— Julie Delpy

44. “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

45. “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

46. “I talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally.”

— Julie Delpy

47. “People around you that you feel you’re close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?”

— Julie Delpy

48. “I hate that whole Tarantino thing about beating up women and killing them and chopping up. Just because you have the mind of a 12 year old.”

— Julie Delpy

49. “I think anyone who has had a fight and who’s a very good observer of the situation and people’s behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.”

— Julie Delpy

50. “If Woody Allen called me, I’d be there straight away. Who wouldn’t? Truly.”

— Julie Delpy