Mark Duplass Quotes

#1. A lot of it is found in the editing room and part of that is due to some of the improvisational tactics we employ on set. Part of it is that the shot goes a little bit long and they end up coming down to fit time.

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#2. I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.

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#3. Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting.

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#4. I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

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#5. My wife and I are like twins and that is a great and a terrible thing for a marriage. It makes for the most comfortable thing in the world to be truly known and loved, but also makes for a lot of conflict and that's how we roll in my house.

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#6. Jay [Duplass] and I normally just sit around and people watch, and we talk about things that are happening in our lives, or with people that we've met. That's the soup from which our movies usually come from.

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#7. They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.

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#8. Well, I'll be honest with you, sometimes you don't know you're playing a moment that's going to be in a montage. Sometimes it's a scene that didn't work out the way you hoped it would be and ends up in a montage.

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#9. If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

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#10. I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget filmmaking, about taking chances on young filmmaking, taking risks and obliterating our salary so we can make something cheaply and if it wins everyone wins big.

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#11. As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

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#12. I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging.

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#13. We always joke now like, you know, the more experienced we get making stuff, we're like, "Never leave set without a shot of each of our lead characters driving in the car looking happy, looking moderately blank and looking sad." Because we know we're going to need these things.

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#14. I am not afraid to admit, though slightly ashamed that I Google myself and I see people writing things about me and I get really proud and happy.

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#15. I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

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#16. We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we have to write them all, then shoot them all, then edit them all. So we have to just get ahead on those scripts basically.

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#17. When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

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#18. A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.

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#19. No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

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#20. And, there are negatives and positives to it. Like, you know, just like a marriage, where you're like, "Well, this ... you know, is the sex still as exciting as it was two years ago?"

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#21. Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

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#22. 'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.

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#23. I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

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#24. There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

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#25. Going to the theater, spending tons of money, people are losing money doing that. I'm really interested in my kinds of movies being seen as many people as possible on a TV.

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#26. We work in this cave, and we speak to each other sort of subconsciously and with like, weird cues and tangential brother speak, but it really comes down to if you are the person who is moving amongst the actors and talking to people more, the other one can have a little more time to really watch.

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#27. If anybody normally has a 45 minute conference call about something, I'm 15 minutes late and then I'm out 15 minutes before everybody else, and I cut to the key information and I move on. I learned that from my dad and guys like Jason Blum, who know how to do that.

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#28. I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

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#29. I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

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#30. You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.

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#31. We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.

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#32. I mean, it really has a lot to do with who is actually physically doing a lot of talking. And we've just noticed that as we've evolved we're still making all the decisions from this, like, "cave."

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