Miranda July Quotes

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

With my career, everything I do is me. There's no one that handles telling me what I should be about or how I should dress or anything. I'm hands on with absolutely everything. When I'm writing a song, I'm already thinking of the visual for the song and I'm already thinking of what I'm going to wear in that visual and what I'm going to wear when I perform. It all goes hand in hand. Everything I do is just me expressing different sides of myself.

I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate is not determined by outside influences. You can write wherever you are. I don't think I have the talent.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm definitely moving towards directing because I'm naturally a writer, and I think a good director edits, writes, and has acted a little bit. He's done a little bit of everything, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.