Julia Leigh Quotes

Julia Leigh
Australian Novelist
Born: 1970
Life Think Time Work You Yourself
Related authors: Helen Garner James Clavell Janette Turner Hospital Nick Earls Peter Carey Richard Flanagan Steve Toltz Thomas Keneally
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 strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles. Julia Leigh
Life Time Family You Yourself School Free Enough High Easy High School Give Troubles Never Support Like Particularly Well Left Trying Forgotten Form Break Which Really Your Twenties Credence Early
We stitch together our days and edit out our nights. Julia Leigh
Together Nights Our Out Days Edit Stitch
Work infuses my whole life. My creative life is my real life, so it's hard to separate. Julia Leigh
Life Work Creative Real Life Real Separate Hard Creative Life Whole
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. Julia Leigh
Important Important Things Atmosphere Finger Put Most Very Ephemeral Creates Your Hard Things Tone
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
Dangerous Disagree Too Much Will Think Too Would Some About Contest How Much Popularity Popularity Contest Film Received Filmmaking
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, which has a shady undertone. Julia Leigh
Witness Think Shady More Tender Between Voyeur Audience Than Maybe Difference Which
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. Julia Leigh
Truth Time Me Truth Is Think Rational Inspiration Mysterious Exercise Hindsight Question Process Ever
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. Julia Leigh
Love You Yourself World Cinema Before Films Enter Hopefully Something Idea Over Edges Loosen Go Wonder Shock Intense Where Unfold Prefer Film Watching
The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it. Julia Leigh
Important Say Finding Something Most Most Important Thing Important Thing The Most Important Means Thing
Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head. Julia Leigh
Director Together Trust Picture Collaborative Head Involves Although Ultimately Holds Who Whole Filmmaking
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. Julia Leigh
Love Myself Cinema Enjoy Think Other Typecast Restrictive Because Literature Forms Novelist Expression
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. Julia Leigh
Me You Writing Disguise Space Before Interviews See Point Feel Like Doing Private Nor End Role Little Works Film Actor Here
I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day. Julia Leigh
Myself Day See Like Friday Friday Night Forget Then Next Film Night
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. Julia Leigh
Athlete Writer Perhaps Concentration Elite
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. Julia Leigh
You Writing Bit Paradox Constantly About Almost Talk Because Making Process Little Little Bit Choices Actually
I became so focused on this desire to have a child that it really took over over my life, not in a positive way. It definitely impacted on my work, life, and work opportunities: I couldn't travel at particular times. I turned down a lot of opportunities, to be honest. Julia Leigh
Positive Life Work Travel Opportunities My Life To Be Honest Down Took Positive Way Way Definitely Focused Impacted Over Particular Became Lot Times Child Turned Really Desire Honest
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. Julia Leigh
Desperately Guess Emotional Shared Feels Like Offer Child Rollercoaster So-Called Wanted Anyone Transmit
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 have a sense of hope. Why would you put yourself through it? Julia Leigh
Hope You Yourself Patient Sense Living Would Through Put Um Breathing Why

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