Biography

Josephine Decker was born on April 2, 1981 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is a director and actress, known for Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014), Shirley (2020) and Madeline's Madeline (2018).

The beautiful thing about making art is the enormous possibility of failure. And I can only speak for myself, but I think the feeling that it's never good enough or that it's never right is probably a lot of what makes me work really, really hard, for a long time. (quoted in the Village Voice, 30 January 2018)

There's one primary relationship in every film: the relationship between the subject and the filmmaker. (quoted in Filmmaker Magazine, 1 February 2018)