Julia Leigh

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.

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.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.