Julie Christie: Self (segment "Movie Stars")
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Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : [Julie Christie] Everything's happened to me and I haven't happened to anything. Things have happened to me. I think I'd better start happening to something. And one thing after another has happened to me, I mean it's quite incredible, actually. It's the most extraordinary thing. I don't know how it's happened. I think it's going to stop any minute.
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : Did you have me saying I didn't like that Sidney Lumet one? You will be kind, won't you? Not secure enough that I can lose parts yet.
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : I suppose the pop, it goes back to the Beetles, I mean isn't it? You know, we were lucky enough that they were quite cool and hip. And there weren't an awful lot of cool, hip people around, not a majority. And that they became idols and like any idol they were copied. So, that's why London perhaps is now cool and hip.
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : Oh, I think it's super thing. Terrific. I mean, it's not only associated with the idea of freedom. That's... from there goes on to be an idea of pleasure, in a way. And I think people are sort of having a good time, maybe when I say a majority, I don't know because one only knows a certain group of people and maybe it's a minority. But it seems to me that a good time is much easier had by all now than ever before. Pleasure's I think terrific. Fine. And if you haven't got anything else then you're lucky you've got that.
interviewer : What do you love?
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : The sun, I'm terribly superficial, you know. Terribly. Sunflowers, good book, cats. I love strong relationships, there you are. Of any sort.
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : The sort of thing in cinema of, oh it's exhausting, of this working up so that your two, three second take is at absolutely the right pitch of emotion however low or high it is. You have to work yourself up, 'cos what I mean, whatever you're doing you have to be in some sort of state of emotion for it to be able to do it and not be yourself, just talking. And that sort of constant screwing up, of hitting the right note without testing anywhere. And then, you know of course, on stage you start and you hit along, testing all the time. That is for me is one of the main things, one of the main differences. I enjoy it very much all that sort screwing up of nerves and energy and everything to go bonk. But then I love working up to something and feeling it's coming and sort of flowing or not going, that as well. Something you miss.
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : No I went away to, of all places, the Canary Islands after Dr. Zhivago. All by myself and didn't talk to anyone for a week. Which was marvelous. Terrific. Like being a child again. Lovely, you know. Time to indulge all your fantasies and daydreams. Almost become religious again.
interviewer : Why, were you religious?
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : Well, I went to a convent. Well. everybody's religious when they're little, aren't they?
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : A lot of people I think, that middle age is the time, I would have thought, when you're right for happiness.
interviewer : You're not right for happiness now?
Herself (segment "Movie Stars") : Oh, certainly not. Not that sort of happiness, you know.
