A biography for Jill Solowayhasn’t been written yet.
“To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'”
“All writing is propaganda for the self.”
“My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.”
“So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.”
“Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.”
“Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm always going for truth and honesty.”
“My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.”
“I'm a fan of Louis C.K., I'm a fan of Lena Dunham. I love shows about people that other people would consider unlikable, or, like, the work of Woody Allen and Albert Brooks.”
“In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.”
“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.”
“For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'”
“I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.”
“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.”