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.

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.

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.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.