Julia Leigh
Julia Leigh
Julia Leighis an Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryAustralia
atmosphere important ephemeral
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.
athlete elite-athletes concentration
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
ideas world cinema
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.
school giving support
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.
writing space roles
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.
thinking perceive single-person
I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.
maybe shady voyeur witness
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.
The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.
almost bit constantly paradox talk
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.