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Jill Soloway Quotes

I always wanted to do a family show.

– Jill Soloway

I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a TV writer. I had the executive producer title. I was running the room.

– 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’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

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.

– Jill Soloway

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

We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that’s really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn’t look perfect and doesn’t act perfectly.

– 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

Something I’ve really been wanting to do, ever since ‘Six Feet Under’ ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer’s room as well as the ideal family.

– 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

It’s really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically – everybody can do that.

– 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.

– 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.

– Jill Soloway

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.

– Jill Soloway

Getting into Sundance is a certain sort of passport to a level of anxiety I’ve never experienced, even having had a baby in the NICU for a week. For about ten minutes, you’re a world-class director. Then you become an entry-level, harried, low level concierge with absolutely no juice.

– Jill Soloway

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

– 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

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

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

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.

– 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

I’m embarrassed that people will know that I can’t ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn’t in the mood for a bike ride.

– Jill Soloway

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

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.

– Jill Soloway

People who don’t have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead.

– Jill Soloway

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

– Jill Soloway

Perfection would be something that you see in ‘Architectural Digest.’

– 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.

– Jill Soloway

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

– Jill Soloway

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

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