Mark Duplass

“I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.”

“I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists.”

“You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.”

“When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.”

“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.”

“How do you say no to doughnuts?”

“Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.”

“I want 'Like Brothers' to answer young kids who ask, 'How could I possibly become a filmmaker?' This book will step that out for you.”

“Not all movies are movies you want to spend $14 on - and not all movies are movies you want to spend $10 on for ultra VOD, or even $6.99 on renting.”

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

“I selfishly like a lot of first-time directors because they over-prepare, they're super eager, and there's very little ego.”

“As the death of the middle class of film has happened, it has been re-birthed in television.”

“In particular, what I loved about 'Creep' and 'The One I Love' was the combination of naturalism, horror, and comedy that felt kind of new and fun.”

“They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.”

“When we saw the first cut of 'Wild Wild Country,' it was like, Wow.”

“'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.”

“At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.”

“If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you're not allowed to stray from that, you're going to have a stilted scene.”

“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.”

“The realm of making microbudget stuff will always be totally in our control. Most of the time, we just pay for those out of pocket. Then there is stuff that's too expensive for us to pay for, and we want partners on, like 'Togetherness' and 'Animals' and some of our original Netflix movies.”