Jay Duplass

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

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

“Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.”

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

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

“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.”