After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of c… - Miranda July

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life - where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

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.

Without a child I could dance across the sexism of my era, whereas becoming a mother shoved my face right down into it.