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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.

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Julie Delpy
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 21
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Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.
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The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.
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Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.
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I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.
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My dad has always been such a great dad, and he's brought so much culture to my life. He dragged me to see every single movie at the cinématheque as a kid. I saw everything from Star Wars to Bergman.
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I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.
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I've had this opportunity to get some of my financing out of Europe, which has helped tremendously, so I'm not completely dependent on the studio system or on U.S. financing.
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My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.
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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.
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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?
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When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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