Miranda July Quotes

The worst thing to me is the limited vocabulary of childhood sexuality. Parents, more than anyone, know their kids are sexual.

There are going to be points of contact. That`s just a fact. That it`s not inherently bad. In reality, the way that the two worlds interact are often very, very subtle, almost inarticulatable.

I have this audiotape that I made when I was like 6 or 7 that`s just one side of a conversation with spaces for me to fill in the rest, ... So, I could play it back and talk to myself. Don`t know if that`s art, but it was definitely a sort of way of taking care of myself.

Me and You and Everyone We Know

I wanted to talk about that and show that without having to just have a vocabulary of blame or shame -- to say that it can be both really scary and OK, ... It can also be sad and exciting and even kind of fulfilling. It`s really not a good conversation to leave to ped-ophiles. It`s much better to actually talk about it without pathology.

I have endless sympathy for (them) because I see myself so much in them.

I`m specifically interested in how to create a vocabulary about children`s sexuality. That it exists at all, and that it exists in an adult world,

As a filmmaker, the last thing you want to do is place kids in emotional or physical jeopardy, ... Especially for me, coming from a place of really loving those kids.