Gillespie, Katherine (October 29, 2020). " 'Kajillionaire' Is a Queer Film Without Buzzwords". Paper . Retrieved July 20, 2021. It Chooses You, By Miranda July". The Independent. January 8, 2012. Archived from the original on May 15, 2022 . Retrieved February 5, 2020.

Silvers, Emma (January 21, 2015). "Miranda July on Her Love For the Gilman and Growing Up In Berkeley". SF Weekly . Retrieved October 4, 2020.She wrote, directed and starred in the films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and The Future (2011) and wrote and directed Kajillionaire (2020). She has authored a book of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007); a collection of nonfiction short stories, It Chooses You (2011); and the novel The First Bad Man (2015). But July has her detractors, and her earnestness makes her an easy target. Her work can be polarising – for every viewer who gasped in recognition at the tender awkwardness of the relationships in Me and You and Everyone We Know there was someone else who found the talking cat in July’s follow-up, The Future (2011) to be a horrible indulgence typifying the worst kind of postmodern faux-profundity. At her speaking engagement at the Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco's Mission District on May 16, 2007, July mentioned that she is currently working on a new film.

July was born in Barre, Vermont, in 1974, [1] the daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger. Her parents are both writers who taught at Goddard College at the time. [2] They were also the founders of North Atlantic Books, a publisher of alternative health, martial arts, and spiritual titles. [3] [4] Her father was Jewish, and her mother was Protestant. [5] I myself had some rough episodes when I was younger,” she says with a half-smile. “And it wasn’t totally out of the question that if you went out and a guy was being a jerk, that you might get into a physical fight with him. That was the crowd I rolled with. Four velvet curtains open and close sporadically, of their own accord. A short text by July hangs alongside each curtain: July is brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing—even cringe-inducing, powering past sexual boundaries and gender identification into the surprising galaxy of primal connection. ‘We all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.’ Is there a more hopeful statement about humankind? In Miranda July’s strange universe, probably not.”

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When Sophie (Miranda July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) decide to adopt a stray cat, their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.