My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself.
Miranda JulyThe level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.
Miranda JulyMy earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.
Miranda JulyIt was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone โ it doesnโt always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.
Miranda JulySome people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. Iโve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isnโt.
Miranda JulyI supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasnโt just movies that couldnโt contain the full cast of characters โ it was us. We had to winnow life down so we knew where to put our tenderness and attention; and that was a good, sweet thing. But together or alone, we were still embedded in a kaleidoscope, ruthlessly varied and continuous, until the end of the end.
Miranda July