“Basically, when you’re an actor, when you’re not working, you’re nothing,” Delpy says.

“(But) when you’re a director, when you’re not directing, you’re thinking, you’re preparing, you’re planning.

“When you’re a writer, you’re always a writer. The moment you go to your computer and write two lines, you’re a writer.”

Having witnessed her actor parents’ dejection when they weren’t employed, Delpy was determined to keep herself busy, whether studying film at New York University or making music (she released a pop-folk album in 2003).
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”PARIS is a wonderful place,” says Julie Delpy, “but it’s not a postcard. There are bad sides to it, and if you’re raised there, you know that it has edges, sharp ones. There’s crime, there’s murder …” and she starts to laugh, because in her new film, 2 Days in Paris, it’s not the dark underbelly of the city of lights that she is bringing to the screen but something more mundane, awkward and funny.

In 2 Days in Paris, the sharp edges, after all, are things such as “taxi drivers, ex-boyfriends, all this stuff that happens, simple things that cause trouble”, when a French woman (Delpy) and her American boyfriend take a quick trip to her hometown and discover that it’s not the ideal setting for a relationship crisis to play out.
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