I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
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
This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake.… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing. — 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
i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it… — 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
The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even… — 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
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
If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
There's always the sense that you should strike while the iron's hot and while there are all these opportunities, but that's not… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else. — 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
The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason… — 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
To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally… — 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
