Top 80 Julie Delpy Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I love acting and I still want to do it, but I’ve such an instinct for directing, it’s something that comes naturally to me. It’s why I’m here on this planet.”

— Julie Delpy

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it’s a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.”

— Julie Delpy

56. “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

57. “I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.”

— Julie Delpy

58. “People have their faults, but it doesn’t prevent you from loving them.”

— Julie Delpy

59. “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

60. “And I realized that directing actors is really important because that’s what ends up on screen.”

— Julie Delpy

61. “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

62. “I avoid confrontation. When I’m on set I never snap at anyone. I don’t have a temper.”

— Julie Delpy

63. “I want to be positive and say: everything I’ve written will get made eventually.”

— Julie Delpy

64. “To make what you have in your head, I think that’s what directing is.”

— Julie Delpy

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

— Julie Delpy

66. “I can’t really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.”

— Julie Delpy

67. “Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It’s easy to just steal an idea because it’s very safe.”

— Julie Delpy

68. “When you’re an actress, you become this thing in people’s hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.”

— Julie Delpy

69. “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

70. “It’s definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It’s assumed a woman doesn’t have a sense of what action is.”

— Julie Delpy

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

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

— Julie Delpy

75. “I’m dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it’s a luxury. But time is money. That’s the reality.”

— Julie Delpy

76. “Our society is so much about fidelity being this thing that’s sacred, and people are miserable. They’re suicidal. It brings more depression than anything else on earth, probably. Sorry to say that, guys.”

— Julie Delpy

77. “Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It’s visual, it’s directing the actors, it’s telling a story. And people don’t always mention this part of directing, but it’s also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.”

— Julie Delpy

78. “I don’t know any woman in France who doesn’t talk to firemen and smile at them, because they’re always so sweet, and they’re wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!”

— Julie Delpy

79. “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

80. “Usually I’m able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.”

— Julie Delpy

81. “I love the acting process. What I don’t like is what’s around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.”

— Julie Delpy

82. “The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.”

— Julie Delpy

83. “A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.”

— Julie Delpy

84. “Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it’s very, very tricky, very, very tricky.”

— Julie Delpy

85. “The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.”

— Julie Delpy

86. “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

87. “I went to film school to make films just because you’re in control of the story.”

— Julie Delpy

88. “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