Julie Delpy says she rejected fourth 'Before' movie

Actor-filmmaker Julie Delpy says she rejected the fourth movie in the celebrated 'Before' series within the last one and a half years as she was contemplating retirement. Delpy went through hoops to create her film 'My Zoe', which left her exhausted and sick and tired of the film industry, in line with the reports.

"I often think about it," Delpy said about leaving the industry. "A year . 5 ago, I had not been definately not it. The hell I experienced to create my film ('My Zoe') had exhausted me. I said no to Richard Linklater for the fourth section of the 'Before' films. I thought that maybe I could get back to school. I would make a very good doctor, for example. You give me three symptoms, and I let you know what you are suffering from...But I like to create, to tell stories; it's more robust than me," the actor said.

Delpy, who played Celine to Ethan Hawke's Jesse in the 1995 movie about two strangers who meet on a train and strike up a conversation. A sequel 'Before Sunset' was released in 2004 and a third film 'Before Midnight' was released in 2013. The French-American actor, 51, isn't retiring for now but she is still struggling to get her projects financed. She said not a high-profile 'Game of Thrones' star like Emilia Clarke guarantees that her film 'A Dazzling Display of Splendor' will have an easy route to the screen. "I have an excellent screenplay, 'A Dazzling Display of Splendor,' about the pioneers of Hollywood. Among the best I've written. A talented and well-known English actress, Emilia Clarke, is attached to the project. And yet, I'm still struggling. Nonstop. I have so many movies in my own drawers that may never be shot, if you only knew! I'm completely fed up."