She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry. — Miranda July Compassion Copy Share Image
The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. — Miranda July Character Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical. — Miranda July Feelings Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the… — Miranda July Friends Copy Share Image
She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond. — Miranda July Cauldrons Copy Share Image
“I could see it so clearly, the zygote-shiney and bulbous, filled with the electric memory of being two but now dammed with… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Each couple's version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I'll think, 'Yikes,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or… — Miranda July Cauldrons Copy Share Image
Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and… — Miranda July Funny Copy Share Image
I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It's impossible to articulate, and it's happening now, almost like a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just… — Miranda July Bridges Copy Share Image
I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“He didn't call me for a few weeks. This was customary within our friendship, confide and retreat, but I wondered. I wondered… — Miranda July Communication Copy Share Image
“The rest of the house was perfectly in order, as it always is, thanks to my system. It doesn’t have a name—I… — Miranda July Dirty dishes Copy Share Image
“Once Carl had called me ginjo, which I thought meant “sister” until he told me it’s Japanese for a man, usually an… — Miranda July Fire Copy Share Image
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that… — Miranda July Alive Copy Share Image
I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your… — Miranda July Big decisions Copy Share Image
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that… — Miranda July Attention Copy Share Image
“If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.” — Miranda July Betrayal Copy Share Image
That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things. — Miranda July Art Copy Share Image
Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image