Julia Leigh

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your…

— Julia Leigh

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the…

— Julia Leigh

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

— Julia Leigh

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

— Julia Leigh

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your…

— Julia Leigh

I don't think good films have messages.

— Julia Leigh

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

— Julia Leigh

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what…

— Julia Leigh

“Dark here comes quickly. He undresses and slips into his silky cold sleeping bag. Up above, the clouds mask the stars and…

— Julia Leigh

Work infuses my whole life. My creative life is my real life, so it's hard to separate.

— Julia Leigh

We stitch together our days and edit out our nights.

— Julia Leigh

I think patients and doctors alike minimise the physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF.

— Julia Leigh

To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't…

— Julia Leigh

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

— Julia Leigh

I wanted to transmit what it feels like to be on the so-called IVF emotional rollercoaster, and I guess I wanted to…

— Julia Leigh

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

— Julia Leigh

An IVF patient is - is living and breathing hope. It's... it's, um... it's - You wouldn't do it if you didn't…

— Julia Leigh

I became so focused on this desire to have a child that it really took over over my life, not in a…

— Julia Leigh

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

— Julia Leigh

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world…

— Julia Leigh

There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness…

— Julia Leigh

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

— Julia Leigh

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox…

— Julia Leigh

The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.

— Julia Leigh

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I…

— Julia Leigh