Duplass Quotes

#1. The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.

Timothy Simons

#2. 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.

Mark Duplass

#3. Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.

Jackie Schaffer

#4. They [Mark and Jay Duplass] both have young kids and talk about parenting all the time. So they get it. So they knew that it was a very delicate time and they knew that it was a lot. All it did was make me want to protect them from - and protect production from - any kind of burden.

Amanda Peet

#5. 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?"

Mark Duplass

#6. 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."

Mark Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

#8. The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

Jay Duplass

#9. An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.

Jay Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

#12. It's just that the nature of being a director is being incredibly overwhelmed with getting the shots right, dealing with the locations, and then there's a two-year-old in the scene, and all that stuff - you know, there's a lot of kids in scenes ...

Jay Duplass

#13. I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Jay Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

#15. I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

Jay Duplass

#16. Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Jay Duplass

#17. 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.

Mark Duplass

#18. 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.

Mark Duplass

#19. You can be a lot more subtle on TV, which is funny because I feel like TV is known for being the opposite of that. The thing we experience in life is that things are not overly dramatic, and things often happen in really small ways.

Jay Duplass

#20. 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.

Mark Duplass

#21. 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.

Mark Duplass

#22. 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.

Mark Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

#25. Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time.

Jay Duplass

#26. 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.

Mark Duplass

#27. I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

Jay Duplass

#28. 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.

Mark Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

#32. 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.

Mark Duplass

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

Mark Duplass

#34. 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.

Mark Duplass

#35. 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.

Mark Duplass

#36. 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.

Mark Duplass

#37. 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.

Mark Duplass

#38. 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.

Mark Duplass

#39. 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.

Mark Duplass

#40. Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

Jay Duplass

#41. 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.

Mark Duplass

#42. 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.

Mark Duplass

#43. 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.

Mark Duplass

#44. I do own a unicycle, which I use for workout purposes as opposed to doing tricks.

Jay Duplass

#45. 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.

Mark Duplass

#46. 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.

Mark Duplass

#47. We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film.

Jay Duplass