Julie Delpy on artistic integrity,film and integrity,self esteem,self confidence

“I am obsessed with integrity. Integrity, for me, comes before everything. And let me tell you, Hollywood is an industry where integrity is really a challenge. People underestimate the word ‘prostitution.’ Prostitution isn’t reserved for people who walk the streets at night. In Hollywood, people of all ages and creeds succeed through prostitution. They succeed by selling out. …

“My point isn’t to be negative, but to be realistic about what the challenges are… My parents were both actors in France who worked very hard to make ends meet. But through them I learned to believe strongly in my work and in the artistic integrity of my acting and screenwriting, and I’m not willing to compromise on it for the world. Hollywood movies set the tone for our culture—and it’s so important to create films where men and women are represented as full people, not objects or caricatures.”

Julie Delpy, actor director singer songwriter – in her Imagining Ourselves blog post Succeed by Selling Out? I think not.

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The idea of making films which depict and celebrate the complex levels of real people does not seem to motivate most major studios lately.

But thankfully there are filmmakers like Nicole Holofcener and her new film “Friends With Money” which “talks” about real people with meaningful challenges and feelings.

One place to find more spiritually-evolved films is The Spiritual Cinema Circle.

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