Top 66 Jill Soloway Quotes

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My interest in community is what fuels my work as a wri

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.
Jill Soloway
Perfection would be something that you see in ‘Architectural Digest.’
Jill Soloway
As much as possible, I put my family first.
Jill Soloway
The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.
Jill Soloway
I guess a show like ‘Entourage’ would be wish fulfillment, right? But ‘Entourage’ is wish fulfillment for men. It’s that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.
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I really relate to the feeling of falling in love 10 times a day and wishing I could never stop falling in love.
Jill Soloway
We’re a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.
Jill Soloway
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.
Jill Soloway
I’ve noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture.
Jill Soloway
Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don’t slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.
Jill Soloway
It’s a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren’t satisfying to straight white men.
Jill Soloway
I’ve always been really interested in how people’s identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.
Jill Soloway
A lot of the people I know connect through working. We’re all so ambitious. Sometimes my friends will say, ‘I want to hang out with you.’ And I just go, ‘Well, let’s do a project together.’ That’s the only way I can.
Jill Soloway
I’ve been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.
Jill Soloway
I am beyond excited to share ‘Transparent’ with the world through Amazon. They’ve been so supportive through this incredible process.
Jill Soloway
I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of ‘everything’s okay’ to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.
Jill Soloway
After ‘Nikki’ and ‘Steve Harvey,’ I had written on a show called ‘The Oblongs,’ which was pretty well respected and had a lot of ‘Simpsons’ writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.
Jill Soloway
For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.
Jill Soloway
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.
Jill Soloway
When you’re making an independent film, it’s like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money’s gone. It’s this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.
Jill Soloway
I think, because of the Internet, we’re not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.
Jill Soloway
Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.
Jill Soloway
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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I’m a fan of Louis C.K., I’m a fan of Lena Dunham. I love shows about people that other people would consider unlikable, or, like, the work of Woody Allen and Albert Brooks.
Jill Soloway
In most shows, there’s usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy.
Jill Soloway
Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, ‘That was fun.’ That will make them want to come back and do it again.
Jill Soloway
I love the Army-Navy surplus store Surplus Value Center. They have really good long underwear and multicolored bandanas, cool camo jackets, and really, really scary-looking knives. If you’re into that sort of thing.
Jill Soloway
If you’re female, and you want to express your femininity, you’re actually demonized in the ‘Free To Be… You And Me’ generation.
Jill Soloway
Guys, there’s only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with ‘guys’ – and it’s those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats.
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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.
Jill Soloway
If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it.
Jill Soloway
My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created to

My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.
Jill Soloway
I’m a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don’t turn on my computer for 24 hours.
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All writing is propaganda for the self.
Jill Soloway
It’s really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.
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The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of ‘Six Feet Under.’ It was called ‘Back To The Garden.’
Jill Soloway
I was the kind of Jew who’d be in a bar, somebody would say it’s Yom Kippur, and I’d go, ‘Really?’
Jill Soloway
I took all my TV experience and what I learned about – by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance – about the realities of the independent film market: ‘Transparent’ is the marriage of those two situations.
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I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.
Jill Soloway
Watching ‘Girls,’ it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.
Jill Soloway
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 wouldn’t necessarily say that ‘Alpha House’ or ‘Betas’ embodied a particular vision of Amazon of the kind of brand or programming they were gonna do. I think those were the first lucky creators who hit it right for them.
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‘Six Feet Under,’ for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.
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Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.
Jill Soloway
To me, it wasn’t ‘Star Wars’ that shaped me; it was more ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and, nowadays, ‘Louie’ and ‘Girls.’
Jill Soloway
Femininity in and of itself – and the feminine – can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.
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I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they’re ‘other.’
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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.
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I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It’s ten people, and you’re together every day laughing your heads off.
Jill Soloway
It’s really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically – everybody can do that.
Jill Soloway
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.
Jill Soloway
I’m very aware that just driving blindly towards money won’t get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place.
Jill Soloway
I’ve always been really interested in secrets – how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.
Jill Soloway
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.
Jill Soloway
The inbox is always open in my brain, and anyone can get in any time and access me. Turning it off is taking back control. I decide who gets in. It’s about emotional privacy, having a self.
Jill Soloway
Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.
Jill Soloway
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.
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I’m a naturally open person – some might say radically open.
Jill Soloway
I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody’s family of origin and their new family – ‘Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband’s parents’ house, or at my parents’ house?’
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Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.
Jill Soloway
You just have to say over and over again: ‘I am a director.’ Nobody gives it to you. Nobody anoints you.
Jill Soloway
I was running the show on ‘United States of Tara’ and ‘How To Make It In America’ where I could say, ‘Okay, I’m in charge of everything now.’ But it still wasn’t my show.
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