Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I think titles are tricky because they're like a really short ad for the book. And like an ad, they should open… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
People who would not be using the word gender or thinking about gayness or trans-ness may actually, without even thinking about it,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
People ask, 'Why would you cast yourself in your movie?' And, for me, it's more like an achievement that I am now… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you.… — Miranda July 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
Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so… — 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
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
I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something… — Miranda July Copy Share 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,… — Miranda July 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 Copy Share Image
In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them.… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“We were anxious to begin our life as people who had no people. And it was easy to find an apartment because we had… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can… — Miranda July 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 own thoughts,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
