Latest Mark Duplass Quotes from Interviews

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• We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish.

  Mark Duplass

  Goal, Accomplish

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a movie work.

  Mark Duplass

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.

  Mark Duplass

  Emotional, Disrespect, Film

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• We're just gonna keep making things and challenging ourselves to make them more cheaply and more renegade and more interesting. That's the only thing we might challenge ourselves to do in the age of so many movies and so many TV shows. We're aware that we're asking time of people to watch stuff, and that there's so much stuff to watch, so we're gonna try to offer you something unique. And it may not always succeed, but it will definitely be different.

  Mark Duplass

  Unique, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk into the room. Then you let your instinct guide you. That's how we made art when we were 15 years old. And that's so fun to us.

  Mark Duplass

  Art, Fun, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm pretty unfussy when it comes to what a TV show should be, or what a movie should be. A lot of people are trying to maintain the theatrical experience for films. That's not really who we are or what we're about. We come from this fundamental understanding that we're just blessed that someone is giving us any money to make something in this town.

  Mark Duplass

  Blessed, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Everyone is having this experience right now, where your friend comes over and says, "Have you seen this?" And you're like, "No! Get off my back!" I can't watch everything, it's impossible. We have young kids, and we stay home on Friday nights, sometimes, you only have 23 minutes to watch something. This is that thing.

  Mark Duplass

  Friday, Home, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

• "Repulsion" for me was a really big movie where I was like, "OK, technically there's nothing scary going on here but I'm kind of terrified." Something so tiny was devolving this whole world. I guess I've always been obsessed with what I call the "epically small" in cinema, and that's how one tiny, little weird thing can just explode everything.

  Mark Duplass

  Scary, World, Kind

  Source: www.salon.com

• When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.

  Mark Duplass

  Writing, Kids, Swimming

  Source: www.salon.com

• I like being nostalgic and maybe crying a little bit.

  Mark Duplass

  Littles, Cry, Nostalgic

  "We talked to director-actor duo Jay and Mark Duplass about their many, many film and TV projects". Interview with Jillian Anthony, www.timeout.com. October 5, 2016.

• I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, "Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30 [pm]."

  Mark Duplass

  Pms, Lots Of Friends, Hey

  "We talked to director-actor duo Jay and Mark Duplass about their many, many film and TV projects". Interview with Jillian Anthony, www.timeout.com. October 5, 2016.

• My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

  Mark Duplass

  Old Neighborhood, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  "We talked to director-actor duo Jay and Mark Duplass about their many, many film and TV projects". Interview with Jillian Anthony, www.timeout.com. October 5, 2016.

• It's kinda crazy to say, but the way Jay [Duplass] and I stay afloat, because we don't make particularly commercial fare that makes a lot of money, is that we make things cheaply and we make things small. We would kind of be afraid to go make a $100 million movie because you have to do certain things to it to have it make its money back.

  Mark Duplass

  Crazy, Way, Kind

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• 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

  Editing, Long, Tactics

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• It's not so much less pressure, it's less work, which is really exciting to me. I'm just personally looking forward to being able to spend a little more time doing different things, so that's really great. Jay and I are writing a book this year which is really fun and so yeah, I am very excited to spend less crazy 12-hour days on set. Those were taxing times.

  Mark Duplass

  Fun, Crazy, Book

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• 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

  Character, Car, Stuff

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

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

  Mark Duplass

  Baby, Kids, Looks

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• 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

  Work Out, Would Be, Way

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• 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

  Character, Challenges, Four

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• 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

  Writing, Different, Done

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• We get to get into the nitty-gritty and the minutiae of the way they relate now, and that's really valuable. We just have to make sure we don't repeat ourselves and we plot this thing so it doesn't dead end too much, and so that's the challenge really. It's like, how do you keep those balls in the air and make it exciting still?

  Mark Duplass

  Air, Challenges, Plot

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• 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

  Strong, Creative, Directors

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• 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

  Sex, Years, Two

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

• 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

  Brother, Moving, Talking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• Most directors do work in pairs. There's usually some form of this, sometimes it literally comes down to you both show up in the morning and one of you is like, "I'm a little tired and overwhelmed today, so I might need you to just be a little step ahead of me and speak with more confidence because I'm not quite there." So, there's quite a bit of that in other teams.

  Mark Duplass

  Morning, Team, Tired

  Source: www.indiewire.com