Jill Soloway Quotes

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Jill Soloway

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 26, 1965

When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.

Jill Soloway

My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.

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There's something about the kind of unconditional wild joy of creating that you have with your siblings that I am always trying to get back to.

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I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.

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So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

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I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture.

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My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

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I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.

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At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.

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What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

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I've been playing with this idea in my mind that the hero's journey that we're all taught as screenwriters may resonate more specifically for male protagonists and maybe even male viewers.

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If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

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I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, 'Yeah, you can do this.' I wanted to direct 'Six Feet Under,' and no, they didn't let me.

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I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.

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Whether you're writing television or movies, at some point you're going to encounter a male executive or investor who's going to say, 'I don't like that woman. She's unlikable.' And often, it's literally for being a regular human woman as opposed to an attracting human woman.

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It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

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If you're in a room and can be seen by actors, you need to understand that you can be felt by them.

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Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.

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On some sets, if a helicopter goes by, what would normally happen is that somebody would go, 'There's a helicopter. Stop.' I'd never stop for a helicopter. I am always trying to make sure that the machine is in service to the actors.

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For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

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