Words matter. These are the best Julia Leigh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Work infuses my whole life. My creative life is my real life, so it’s hard to separate.
I don’t think good films have messages.
I, myself, don’t like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.
I wanted to transmit what it feels like to be on the so-called IVF emotional rollercoaster, and I guess I wanted to offer a shared aloneness to anyone who’s desperately longed for a child.
Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
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.
It’s dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
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 is it the ‘me’ that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I’m in disguise.
I do believe we’re all adaptable, and you’re probably more adaptable than you realize.
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 patients and doctors alike minimise the physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF.
We stitch together our days and edit out our nights.
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. You’re watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.
The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.
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 a rational process.
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.
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.
