Quote

If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really good, useful thing to get to have in a story. And in a movie, it's amazing, because you actually get to show things.

Miranda July

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
Actor
Artist
Film Actor
Film Director
Musician
Screenwriter
Writer
Barre
Vermont
Miranda J. Grossinger
Thing
Movie
Really
Story
Way
Actually
Good
Show
Useful
Things
Read
Amazing
Shows
Sex
Stories
Short
Different
Ways

More quotes by Miranda July

Image
I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.
Miranda July
Image
I don't tally the world, asking, Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you? That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.
Miranda July
Image
When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.
Miranda July
Image
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
Miranda July
Image
I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.
Miranda July
Image
They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. (Birthmark).
Miranda July
Image
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.
Miranda July
Image
I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.
Miranda July
Image
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
Miranda July
Image
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
Miranda July
Image
In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?
Miranda July
Image
The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.
Miranda July
Image
We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.
Miranda July
Image
It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.
Miranda July
Image
I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
Miranda July
Image
Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.
Miranda July
Image
I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.
Miranda July
Image
The job of the artist is to point at things.
Miranda July
Image
People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.
Miranda July
Image
He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.
Miranda July