Julie Delpy Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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