Jay Duplass Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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.

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#4. 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

#5. May giant circus elephants shit on your lawn. May bug-eyed gargoyles eat your young.

James Ellroy

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

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#7. Every area of your life is subject to enemy attack, so you must fight on your knees before you can stand on your mission field.

Elizabeth Alves

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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 ...

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

Jay Duplass

#12. 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?"

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#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Edward Herrmann

#16. Of the twenty- three men and women who served in Dwight Eisenhower's cabinets, only one, the secretary of agriculture, published a memoir afterward, and it was so discreet as to be soporific.

David Brooks

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

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

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#19. We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Pope Benedict XVI

#20. Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Archibald Marwizi

#21. Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not ... you want to throw up.

Maxine

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

Jay Duplass