Pierre Zéni (PZ): Let's begin with 7 questions...'cupidity': are you paid well enough?
Julie Delpy (JD): Ah, I had thought about this one...hmmm...not really, well, I can't answer that one, no, I would say no.

PZ: Do you want to work more so as to make more money ?
JD: I work a lot already...I'd like to make more money but to work more I'd have to stop sleeping maybe...

PZ: 'Envy': with whom would you exchange your career?
JD: Hmm, I don't know, James Cameron (laughter)...nan, nan, seriously...
PZ: You are going to realize Avatar 2 ?
JD: Yes, Avatar 2...(laughter)

PZ: 'Anger': what makes you lose your temper today in cinema?
JD: Nothing actually...I was angry when I was 15 and found many things were unfair, but now, in fact, nothing, I'm very calmed down...

PZ: 'Lust': would you do anything in front of the camera?
JD: No, no, I'm not ready for anything... but behind the camera, yes! (laughter)

PZ: 'Greed': What are you hungry for today?
JD: Couscous-merguez (laughter)...

PZ: 'Pride': Do you like what you've become?
JD: I don't know what I've become...A big question there! Let's say I like more who I am today than who I was 20 years ago...I managed to take a direction I like...

PZ: You like yourself more?
JD: No, I don't like myself more but I like the way I've taken for my life...

PZ: OK...Julie Delpy, are you sensitive to critics?
JD: Yes, I am, but at the same time, when I'm being criticized hard it makes me laugh sometimes, I like it, and when it is justified, then I try to take critics into account...

PZ: Good! We met some people that know you and your career...We met Bertrand Tavernier (La Passion Béatrice), Alex Descas, who knows you well, and Denis Lavant your partner from Mauvais Sang:

Bertrand Tavernier: I think that Julie was an actress labelled as 'exceptional', who went for bold projects ...
Alex Descas: It's her nature, she's frank, she's thoroughgoing, she can be bad-tempered but she's always honest, that's what I like about her...
Bertrand Tavernier: When she left I was a bit afraid that she would lose herself, but finally she did good and manage to survive, which is tough for actresses...
Denis Lavant: I find it really good that she has found her place in the American society, that she has some possibility there to follow her own creative path...
Bertrand Tavernier: Her fancy, her sense of comic, her madness, that's what I like about her...that can be frightful too!
Alex Descas: She has always wanted to write, so she did it, and because she is tenacious she managed to do it...
Denis Lavant: I'd be curious to know if Leos Carax saw her films, with time, and what he thinks about her, because it is the confrontation of 2 creators...

JD: I love Denis, I love them...
PZ: Do you have news from Leos Carax?
JD: Not at all....but you know back in those days I was very pissed with him after the filmshoot...I was very young and very...(sign of anger) - but now I have no anger against anyone...it took me time to find myself, it was difficult, and the fact that I was not creative at the time - I was an actress, which is not a very creative position, and it was a real conflict for me...I was not happy...
PZ: Was that a revenge to become a director?
JD: No, not at all, it was not a revenge at all, it was a need, a vital need...
PZ: More vital than being an actress?
JD: Oh yes, 100 times more, I have every respect for actors, I know actors are very fragile, but I had the need to write, I write since I'm a little girl and stopped when I became an actress, which was odd...
PZ: And so why did you leave?
JD: I had the need to reinvent myself - I was feeling very bad with myself at the time, and it took me years to realize that I was feeling bad because I didn't do what I wanted to...
PZ: You were too young to be an actress?
JD: No, not really, you're never too young to begin...It was hard because it's a tough world, and I am very very straight,
so the slightest bit of corruption made me mad, nowadays I don't care...
PZ: Where does it come from, your education?
JD: Yes, it's my education, it's my parents fault...(laughter)