Jill Soloway

“At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.”

“I always wanted to do a family show.”

“I'm constantly confused about how to dress.”

“I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.”

“I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.”

“I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.”

“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.”

“We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.”

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

“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.”

“I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, 'Yeah, you can do this.' I wanted to direct 'Six Feet Under,' and no, they didn't let me.”

“You just have to say over and over again: 'I am a director.' Nobody gives it to you. Nobody anoints you.”

“I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.”

“I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.”

“Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance - about the realities of the independent film market: 'Transparent' is the marriage of those two situations.”

“If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it.”