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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.
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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.
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You just have to say over and over again: 'I am a director.' Nobody gives it to you. Nobody anoints you.
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I like to create a community where people want to come and have a good time and do their best work.
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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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I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.
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The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.
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I am beyond excited to share 'Transparent' with the world through Amazon. They've been so supportive through this incredible process.
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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.
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To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'
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You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.
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For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a manicure, getting a pedicure, getting my workout in, making sure that I ate healthy. Those things can become treacherous to the mind.
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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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Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.
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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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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 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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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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Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.
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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.
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I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture.
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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'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.
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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.
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If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.
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I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.
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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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Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.
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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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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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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.
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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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There's always been something about Jeffrey Tambor, not only as an actor but as a person, where his ability to embody a sort of very dignified feminine way of being just - this was just very clear to me.
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We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.
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Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.
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Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.
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It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.
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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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