Julia Leigh Quotes

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• Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
• I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.
• I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
• I don't think good films have messages.
• I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.
• I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
• 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 other.
• I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.
• It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
• One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.
• The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
• I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film.…
• 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 family, you've left…
• The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor…
• To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever…
• I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.
• The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
• There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur,…
• The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.
• We stitch together our days and edit out our nights.

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