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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.

Julie Delpy

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Julie Delpy
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 21
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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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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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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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To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.
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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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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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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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I think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly.
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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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