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Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

- Jill Soloway

Feminine, Privileged, Itself, Worshipped

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.

- Jill Soloway

Pilot, About, Cast, Compromises

From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.

- Jill Soloway

Scare, Part, Cut, Excite

Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' - and it's those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats.

- Jill Soloway

Own, Sentences, Slaughter, Pickle

I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

- Jill Soloway

Craving, Joining, Noticed, Synagogue

I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture.

- Jill Soloway

Culture, Sexuality, Always, Popular Culture

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

- Jill Soloway

Purpose, Wait, Okay, Heal

Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'

- Jill Soloway

See, Digest, Would, Architectural

I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.

- Jill Soloway

Access, Surrounded, Show, Entourage

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

- Jill Soloway

Here, Making, Funding, Financing

The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, it's kind of like winning the lottery. The independent film world is a world you can actually get to. You can get the under-a-million-dollar film by finding a good cast and financing.

- Jill Soloway

Voice, Commercial, Very, Financing

On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir.

- Jill Soloway

Sunday Morning, Boulevard, Vantage Point

For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.

- Jill Soloway

Fountain, Bucks, Laura, Amazing Things

When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.

- Jill Soloway

Like, Sundance, Learned, Delight

I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

- Jill Soloway

Bicycle, Bad, Been, Ankles

Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.

- Jill Soloway

Love, I Think, Mixing, Being Pretty

The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'

- Jill Soloway

Feet, Six, Wrote, Garden

I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.

- Jill Soloway

Night, Hours, Friday Night, Friday

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

- Jill Soloway

Attractive, Had, Spent, Unattractive

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

- Jill Soloway

Happy, Very, I Write, Satisfying

It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

- Jill Soloway

People, Every Day, Invest, Satisfying

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

- Jill Soloway

Woman, Always, Meant, Gaze

I wouldn't necessarily say that 'Alpha House' or 'Betas' embodied a particular vision of Amazon of the kind of brand or programming they were gonna do. I think those were the first lucky creators who hit it right for them.

- Jill Soloway

Lucky, Creators, I Think, Programming

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.

- Jill Soloway

I Think, Indie, Brought, Normally

On some sets, if a helicopter goes by, what would normally happen is that somebody would go, 'There's a helicopter. Stop.' I'd never stop for a helicopter. I am always trying to make sure that the machine is in service to the actors.

- Jill Soloway

Helicopter, Some, Would, Normally

'Six Feet Under,' for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.

- Jill Soloway

College, Feet, Meant, Alan

There's something about the kind of unconditional wild joy of creating that you have with your siblings that I am always trying to get back to.

- Jill Soloway

Kind, Always, About, Unconditional

I think I've always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I'm dressed like a boy, when I'm dressed more masculine.

- Jill Soloway

I Think, Had, Whole, Struggle

I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.

- Jill Soloway

Think, Like, Very, Camp

It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

- Jill Soloway

Music, Some, Everybody, Dramatically

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