Quotes from Jay Duplass

My whole life, I've been the one in my family that's always too emotional and too sensitive. That's, like, my role in my family.

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

If we are to maintain a relevant and just industry, we must all open our eyes to the obvious lack of equality in wages, representation, and access.

I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.

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.

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.

I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.

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

In ultralight backpacking, modified gear pieces come into play, like a tent you hoist with your trekking poles.

I think it's hard for quieter, more introverted people to get into acting.

I think it's rare for anyone that a really accomplished, amazing director calls you up and says, 'I want to make a movie around you, and I want it to be this.'

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

My wife is a social worker and a feminist, and it feels natural to me to have these relationships with these powerhouse women that I have had.

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

Ultralight backpackers do some stupid stuff, like instead of bringing a toothbrush, you saw one off right below the bristles and just carry the head.

I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.

From casting to hiring to awards races like the Emmys, taking active steps toward inclusion will make for richer stories, a stronger democracy, and a better world.

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

I grew up Catholic, and I am a pretty shy person.

It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''

On 'Transparent,' I work closely with LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are now my close friends - truth be told, we're all more like family.

I always tell young filmmakers, don't go make a feature. Make a short. When you're ready to make a feature, people will tell you. Your friends will tell you. Your fans will tell you. Festivals will tell you. Listen to your audience.

I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.

When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That's basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to be when I was 16, the answer would've been, 'I want to be a 55-year-old black musician.'