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

Julie Delpy

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Julie Delpy
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 21
Actress
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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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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.
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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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Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women. (...) I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.
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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.
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People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.
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To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.
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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.
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I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.
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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.
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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.
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I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.
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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.
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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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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 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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I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.
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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.
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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.
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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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