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.

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

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.

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.