Miranda July: Something

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”

Miranda July

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“I have to do something, I have to make something or talk to someone — things are not the same anymore”

Miranda July

Pretty Cool People interview (2007)
Context: I guess my favorite thing in the world is when I look at a piece of art, or read a story, or watch a movie where I walk away feeling like "Oh my god — I have to do something, I have to make something or talk to someone — things are not the same anymore" — and so I try to make work where you come away with that feeling. It's like, yeah, you're thinking about what you just saw, but even more than that — you feel able, you feel like, kind of propelled.

“I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence.”

Miranda July

As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/the-make-believer.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
Context: I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It’s impossible to articulate, and it’s happening now, almost like a perverse secret.... That’s always sort of fascinating to me.

Thinking

“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.”

Miranda July

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Life , Pain , Dreams , Way

“Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve 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 isn’t.”

Miranda July

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

People , Thinking , Silence

“It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.”

Miranda July

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Painting

“Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.”

Miranda July

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Life , Hope , Way

“We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.”

Miranda July

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

World

“I wanted to make the movie feel like life feels to me — and life feels both sad and dark and confusing and more than hopeful — it feels like something totally incredible could happen at any moment and with no explanation.”

Miranda July

On her film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), in an interview at Apple.com http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/in-action/?movie=july

Life , Sadness , Hope , Feeling

“No one's keeping track — no one's making of an archive of these "unimportant" things, you know… but now we have an archive … and in a way, the second there's many, it becomes proof of something, something that's so unspecific — that it's — that it's lively — to me that's really alive — that kind of half nauseous, half beautiful feeling.”

Miranda July

Pretty Cool People interview (2007)

Beauty , Way , Feeling

“I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It’s impossible to articulate, and it’s happening now, almost like a perverse secret.... That’s always sort of fascinating to me.”

Miranda July

As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/the-make-believer.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

Secret , Thinking