Julie Delpy Quotes

It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively - that gives me a lot of happiness.

Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

It's hard to make a living at independent films, at least in my experience. It can be hard to be really creatively fulfilled in some television. Between the two, I get a bit of both.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.

There's only one thing I know what to do, so I'm pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your only skill is wonderful. And it's wonderful to be read. It's a really exciting and happy thing to be read.