Mark Duplass Quotes

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• No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

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  Giving, Want, Chance

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• There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

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  Weekend, No Excuses, Film

  "Mark Duplass: 'There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends'" by Lanre Bakare, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2015.

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• I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that quickly and I'm really grounded in story structure. Part of my success as an actor, is that I know story well. Part of my success as a director, is how well I know story. Same thing, as a producer. It all begins and ends with me as a story creator. But, I love doing it all.

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  Skills, Causes, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting.

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  Exciting

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Art, Fun, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget filmmaking, about taking chances on young filmmaking, taking risks and obliterating our salary so we can make something cheaply and if it wins everyone wins big.

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  Philosophy, Winning, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

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  Narrative, Documentaries, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

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  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.

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• I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

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  Art, Believe, Independent

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  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.

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• 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.

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  People, Watches, Soup

  Source: collider.com

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

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  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.

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• I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

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  Thinking, Cameras, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

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  Made, Somewhere In Time, Five

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• I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

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  Moving, Guessing, Second Guessing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

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  Thinking, Humanity, Bills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

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  Fun, Opinion, Helpful

  "Live From Sundance: A GQA with Mark Duplass". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. January 18, 2012.

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• "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.

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  Scary, World, Kind

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

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  Fighting, Limited Resources, Used

  "Live From Sundance: A GQA with Mark Duplass". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Going to the theater, spending tons of money, people are losing money doing that. I'm really interested in my kinds of movies being seen as many people as possible on a TV.

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  People, Tvs, Losing

  Source: collider.com

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• Just being able to make exactly what I want with my brother and a lot of my best friend and to have a place like HBO that not only lets you do that, but supports you and puts up billboards in support of it, and really puts it out there for you. That's not something I get a lot in the independent film world where everybody's pinching pennies and nervous about whether it's going to make money or not.

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  Brother, Independent, Hbo

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

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  Directors, Looks, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• My wife and I have been together for many years and that, to me, is like endlessly fascinating and endlessly confusing how to sustain all of the excitement from the front of our relationship, valuing that versus the comfort and knowing that she knows all of my flaws and still loves me. It's great, but certainly not as exciting as it was day one.

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  Years, Knowing, Wife

  Source: collider.com

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• My wife and I are like twins and that is a great and a terrible thing for a marriage. It makes for the most comfortable thing in the world to be truly known and loved, but also makes for a lot of conflict and that's how we roll in my house.

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  Wife, House, World

  Source: collider.com

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