Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don’t slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you. Jill Soloway Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, ‘That was fun.’ That will make them want to come back and do it again. Jill Soloway Read Quote
You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won’t pay for it, that is the artist’s fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive’s fault or the world’s. Jill Soloway Read Quote
To me, it wasn’t ‘Star Wars’ that shaped me; it was more ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and, nowadays, ‘Louie’ and ‘Girls.’ Jill Soloway Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre. Jill Soloway Read Quote
Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies. Jill Soloway Read Quote
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 Read Quote
